Sugar was filmed almost entirely
on location in Northeast Ohio and had its Ohio premiere November
11, 2004 at the Ohio Independent Film Festival.
Congratulations to Ashley
Kaye for winning the BIIFF Best Youth Actor Rising Star Award, along
with Sugar's
nomination for Best Feature and Christopher
K. Young's nomination for Indie Auteur 2005!
Congratulations to the cast and
crew of Sugar for your part in helping Sugar win:
the Berkeley
Video and Film Festival's Award of Excellence for Digital Features!
the Key
West IndieFest Best Feature Award!
Everybody involved with this
project should be very proud!
Please watch the trailer
for the film. Sugar has been entered into numerous film festivals.
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The film is propelled by diegetic and nondiegetic
electronic music.
Hailie has a strange fascination with the sun,
seeing it as an
extension of her deceased father's love.
The role of her mother
"Janet," is played by Christine Pratt.
Hailie's mother leaves her home by heself for
weekends at a time. As a result, each goodbye
is fraught with separation anxiety on Hailie's
part.
It is one particular night, when her mother
forgets her insulin that ultimately tears
both of their worlds apart.
Hailie embarks on a search, leaving her suburban
home for the city in search
of her mother, who after being unreachable,
Hailie believes to be kidnapped.
Hailie begins to see her journey to the city
is too far to be reached by foot.
She realizes that in order to fulfill her mission,
she will have to enlist the
help...
...and throw herself at the mercy of strangers.
Some will have her best interests at heart.
Some will not.
Little does Hailie know she is simply competing
against a carnival of adult
pleasures for her mother's attention.
Emily Varzelle stars as "Amber."
Hailie is left to her own young devices to
not only save the mother she believes
to be in trouble, but to also protect herself.
Sometimes alone...
...sometimes helped by unlikely allies, Hailie
must navigate the uncharted waters
of the nighttime city...
...or lose everything trying.
Sugar also stars:
M. Scott Newson as Det. Sgt. Mike Lanigan
Christopher Horn as Gus
Joy Margaret Iroff Reinhoehl as Deena
Lisa Parish as Megan, the social worker
with Christopher K. Young as Teddy
Michael Orlando as Rodeo
Steve Olson as Spooky
Dominic Reese as the drug dealer
Rick Drexler as the driver
Lana Zannoni as the psychology student
and Griff Allen in a brief appearance as the
desk sergeant
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