Doubles with Slight Pepper
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Now Online: 25 New Face Ian Harnarine’s Doubles With Slight Pepper
At the DCTV short film panel I hosted a few weeks ago, I was chatting with Ian Harnarine, one of our 25 New Faces of 2012, and 2011 New Face Jason Sondhi, who runs Short of the Week and Staff Picks at Vimeo. So I’m wondering if it’s a coincidence that Harnarine’s excellent Trinidad-set family drama Doubles with Slight Pepper (the feature version of which is in IFP’s Emerging Storytellers program next month) has just debuted on Vimeo (where it’s a Staff Pick, naturally) and is the current pick on Short of the Week. Either way, make sure to check […]
by Nick Dawson on Aug 14, 2013 -
Ian Harnarine’s Toronto Film Festival Diary
Hi, my name is Ian Harnarine and I’m one of Filmmaker magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” for 2012. My short film Doubles With Slight Pepper won the award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and also won the Genie Award (Canada’s Oscar). I am adapting the short film into a feature and was invited back by the festival to compete in their PITCH THIS! competition. I will compete with five other filmmakers that each have six minutes to pitch their feature film idea to a live audience of over 200 industry […]
by Ian Harnarine on Sep 20, 2012 -
“25 NEW FACE” IAN HARNARINE PROFILED BY NEW YORK TIMES
Last week, the New York Times published a profile on writer/director (and also nuclear physicist) Ian Harnarine, who is a member of our 2012 “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” The article details Harnarine’s interesting backstory — he is a Trinidadian Canadian, an NYU professor who teaches both film and nuclear physics, a Spike Lee acolyte — but is maybe most interesting in its description of the difficulties the director of the award-winning short Doubles with Slight Pepper had in connecting with an audience and the Indo-Carribbean community in his adopted home city. [F]or all the accolades the film has […]
by Nick Dawson on Aug 27, 2012
