| Doubles with Slight Pepper | |
| Director: | Ian Harnarine |
| Producer: | Ian Harnarine Jason Harnarine Ryan Silbert |
| Starring: | Errol Sitahal Sanjiv Boodhu |
| Music: | Kenyatta Beasley |
| Cinematography: | Spencer Kiernan |
| Editing: | Brooke Swaney |
| Runtime: | 16 minutes |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | English |
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.
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]