Sugar Dumplin

The film follows three Black fathers across Toronto as they reflect on what it means to show up — for their children, for their community, and for themselves. Shot over four days with a lean crew, every frame was built around the emotional truth of each subject rather than a conventional documentary structure.

The result was a film that felt less like a documentary and more like a letter — one that audiences received personally, regardless of their own background or experience of fatherhood.