Sugar
Filmmaker: Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck
USA / 2008 / 114 min
Awards: Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize nominee 2008
ICA Cinema 1 Sun 8 Mar 7pm
Brilliant second feature from the duo who brought us Oscar®-nominated Half Nelson, dealing with the realities of migration & baseball.
Sugar (dazzling first-time actor Algenis Perez Soto) is plucked from poverty in the Dominican Republic and sent to Iowa to pursue his dream of professional baseball, but soon finds himself out of his depth. This second feature from young writing and directing duo of Oscar® nominated Half Nelson (2006) brings fresh insight to the American dream, grappling effectively with the complex realities of migration.
Anna Boden
Anna Boden was born in Boston and studied at Columbia University. In addition to Half Nelson and Sugar, she collaborated with Ryan Fleck on the short films Have You Seen This Man? and Gowanus, Brooklyn and the documentary Young Rebels.
Screening in partnership with BFM International Film Festival.
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