BURNT SUGAR PRODUCTIONS
FILMS
AMERICAN PARENT (2023)
The everyday chaos of raising a toddler is intensified for a lesbian couple, as they maneuver through the pandemic and professional uncertainty.
Buy Tickets to the World Premiere: BFI Flare London
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ROADTRIP TO THE TOTALITY ZONE (2025)*
An absurdist comedy about a dysfunctional mother and unemployed son as they roadtrip across Arkansas in their RV to see the solar eclipse.
In Development: Production in Spring 2024
KOKOROMI GAKUEN
An alternative school in Japan offers hope and a fulfilling life to people with severe disabilities who learn to work the land.
THE GAME CAMERA (2024)*
When a grieving woman installs a night vision camera in her mini horse's corral, the specter of a human intruder on her rural Kansas ranch makes her reconsider her husband's death.
Filming in Kansas, Summer 2023
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FEAR NOT (2020)
A Mennonite school teacher trains to carry a gun in her classroom after her husband votes for the new law.
Winner:
Best Kansas Narrative Short Film, Tallgrass Film Festival
Recipient: Chicago Digital Media Production Fund grant
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OUR BLOOD IS WINE (2018)
Filmmaker Emily Railsback and award-winning sommelier Jeremy Quinn provide intimate access to rural family life in the Republic of Georgia as they explore the rebirth of 8,000-year-old winemaking traditions almost lost during the period of Soviet rule.
