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Sugar

United States, Dominican Republic

2008

120 Min
Color
1.85:1
Spanish, English
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DIR Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck

EXEC Anna Boden

PROD Paul S. Mezey, Jamie Patricof, Jeremy Kipp Walker

SCR Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck

DP Andrij Parekh

CAST Algenis Perez Soto, Rayniel Rufino, Andre Holland, Ann Whitney, Ellary Porterfield, Jaime Tirelli, Jose Rijo, Michael Gaston, Alina Vargas, Richard Bull, Kevin Leonardo Garcia, Joendy Pena Brown

ED Anna Boden

PROD DES Beth Mickle

MUSIC Michael Brook

London (Film on the Square), Sundance (Dramatic Competition), Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), AFI FEST (Special Screenings), Stockholm (American Independents)

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Anna Boden

Anna Boden is an American film director, cinematographer, editor, and screenwriter best known as the co-writer of the 2006 film Half Nelson. She is known for her collaborations with fellow filmmaker Ryan Fleck.

While studying film at NYU, Boden met Ryan Fleck on the set of a student film. Soon they began dating and decided to collaborate. Together they made the short documentaries Have You Seen This Man? and Young Rebels before they wrote and he directed the short film Gowanus, Brooklyn, a sample feature aiming to attract potential financiers to their undeveloped script, Half Nelson. The short won a prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Boden and Fleck then made the film, Half Nelson starring Ryan Gosling in 2006.

Boden and Fleck have since co-written and co-directed the 2008 film Sugar, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, about a 19 year-old Dominican who immigrates to the United States to play minor league baseball. They wrote the screenplay together… read more

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Ryan Fleck

Ryan K. Fleck (born September 20, 1976) is an American film director, cinematographer, editor, and screenwriter best known for directing and writing the 2006 film Half Nelson and the 2008 film Sugar. He is known for his collaborations with fellow filmmaker Anna Boden.

Fleck was born in Berkeley, California and raised in Berkeley and Oakland, California. He attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where he studied film. At this time he met Anna Boden on the set of a student film and, after he finished his thesis short film Struggle, they began dating and decided to collaborate. Together they made the short documentaries Have You Seen This Man? and Young Rebels before they wrote and he directed the short film Gowanus, Brooklyn, a sample feature aiming to attract potential financiers to their undeveloped script, Half Nelson.The short won a prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and Fleck and Boden were subsequently invited to the Sundance Writer’s Lab to receive… read more

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Geronimo

6Sep10

Another remarcable film by the most talented couple of american filmmakers in years. We have a lot of really good things to come from them yet...

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Brad Owens

26Jun10

cool story, not the best acting, but good.

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rowdyman

9Feb10

Intimate, authentic and understated. The complete opposite of the Natural or Field of Dreams. A lovely, personal tale of the 90% of people who don't make the big game but find new dreams.

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Seth Farmer

30Dec09

i almost saw this at sundance 08, or was it 07? looks like i missed out

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By Jeremy Moss on October 8, 2009

I want to embrace this film. The subject – a Dominican baseball player enters the minors in the US. The setting is fascinating – a world, business, where Dominican ball players are hustled across the…  read review

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