Doubles with Slight Pepper

Doubles with Slight Pepper
Directed byIan Harnarine
Written byIan Harnarine
Produced byIan Harnarine
Jason Harnarine
Ryan Silbert
StarringErrol Sitahal
Sanjiv Boodhu
CinematographySpencer Kiernan
Edited byBrooke Swaney
Music byKenyatta Beasley
Release date
  • September 12, 2011 (2011-09-12) (TIFF)
Running time
16 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Doubles with Slight Pepper is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Ian Harnarine and released in 2011.

The film stars Sanjiv Boodhu as Dhani, a young doubles vendor in Trinidad whose estranged father Ragbir (Errol Sitahal) returns from Toronto for the first time in many years to reveal that he is dying.[1]

A full-length feature expansion of the film, Doubles, was announced as receiving funding from Telefilm Canada's Talent to Watch program in 2019,[2] and premiered at the 2023 Atlantic International Film Festival.

Accolades

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The film won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival,[3] and was named to TIFF's year-end Canada's Top Ten list.[4]

In 2012, it won the Genie Award for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 32nd Genie Awards.[5]

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