Hope and a Little Sugar

Hope and a Little Sugar is a 2006 Indian Englishlanguage film shot in New York and directed by Tanuja Chandra. It premiered and won an award onOctober 2006 at the South Asian International Film Festival in New York. In addition, it was the opening film in 2008 for the Opening Night Gala at BAFTA, sponsored by the London Asian Film Festival by Tongues on Fire.

The film was shot in 2004 but was delayed due to an exhaustive postproduction exchange between director Chandra and independent American producersScott Pardo and Glenn Russow. This included pre and postproduction that was entirely done via the internet. Preproduction took over two months where Chandra finalised the cast, locations and even set design sitting in Mumbai. The entire cast and crew consisted ofpeople, and the film was shot entirely in New York over a period ofdays.

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