| Director: | Robert Greene |
|---|---|
| Production: | Do Something Real (Robert Greene), Robert Kolodny, Bennett Elliott, WW7 Entertainment (Peter Kline, Alex Needles), Field of Vision, Method M Films (Sebastián Martínez Valdivia) |
| Running Time: | 98’ |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Main Cast: | Ryan Holliger, Michael Midgyett, Amanda Sanner, Gavin Jones, Wayde Holliger, Bonnie Holliger, Hank Holliger, Tray Martin, Candy Woods, Ashley Long, Auveon Jackson |
| Cinematographer: | Robert Kolodny |
| Editor: | Robert Greene |
| Music: | Wilkie Davis-Greene, Ramin Kousha |
| Sound: | Danny Bowersox, Lawrence Everson |
Cinema
Too Much Sugar
Orizzonti
Synopsis
Ryan “Holli-wood” Holliger is a charismatic pit bull of a man with six kids by five different women. His best friend AccRite is a rapper and laborer, dealing with an unimaginable loss. They have big dreams of making their own movie about fatherhood in their working-class Missouri town. Over the course of one pivotal, madcap year, the film becomes something else entirely: a vehicle for accountability, healing and self-discovery for their families.
Director’s Statement
Too Much Sugar is the next step in the collaborative, therapeutic documentary cinema developed by our filmmaking team. We co-create a film with Ryan Holliger, a carpenter, fighter, and father of six children by five different women in rural Missouri. Ryan has skeletons in his closet, so he wants to make a movie – a zany comedy – to show his family that he can be a better man and help them live their dreams. The film mixes the making of Ryan’s movie with a gritty documentary portrait of his working-class realities and offers him a puncher’s chance at redemption.
Meanwhile, Ryan’s best friend AccRite is trying to move forward after his 16-year-old son was murdered two years ago. Ryan helps nudge his friend into a drama therapy-like filmmaking process to help him get some closure. Made with the same grit and determination as its protagonists, Too Much Sugar is a working-class film about working-class people.
Telling the stories of working people is personal to me because of where I came from. Ryan and I share a basic desire to correct the mistakes of our deadbeat fathers and stop the generational hurt by being good fathers ourselves. It’s not just me telling Ryan’s story, but us co-creating (with the collaboration of our families and the whole crew) a film about the things that matter most.
Production/distribution
PRODUCTION 1:
World War Seven Entertainment - Peter Kline, Alex Needles
E-mail: needles@ww7.tv , peter@ww7.tv
Web: https://ww7.tv/
Social Media: @worldwarseven – Instagram
PRODUCTION 2:
Do Something Real - Robert Greene E-mail: prewarcinema@gmail.com
Social Media: @do_something_real_docs – Instagram, @prewarcinema – Instagram
PRODUCTION 3:
Robert Kolodny, Bennett Elliott
E-Mail: robert.kolodny@gmail.com, belliottny@gmail.com
Social Media: @robertkolodny – Instagram, @yaybennett – Instagram
PRODUCTION 4:
Field of Vision
Web: https://fieldofvision.org/
Social Media: @fieldofvision – Instagram
PRODUCTION 5:
METHOD M FILMS - Sebastián Martínez Valdivia
Email: martinezse@missouri.edu
WORLD SALES:
Cinetic Media - Jason Ishikawa
E-mail: jason@cineticmedia.com
Web: https://cineticmedia.com/
PRESS OFFICE:
Cinetic Marketing
E-mail: toomuchsugar@cineticmedia.com
