From internationally acclaimed filmmaker Adam Bhala Lough, and Executive Producers David Gordon Green, Danny McBride and Jody Hill, Hot Sugar’s Cold World is fly-on-the-wall look into the life of a modern-day Mozart, Nick Koenig (Hot Sugar) as he creates one-of-a-kind music made entirely out of sounds from the world around him. Nick lives every young musician’s dream, but when his internet- famous girlfriend goes on tour and they split, he flies to Paris where he grew up, to move on with his life, while hunting for increasingly unique and exotic sounds to sample and turn into beats. Through his journey, Hot Sugar goes on some crazy adventures, meets some fascinating people and learns what it takes to survive as an artist.
With appearances by former members of Das Racist, legendary filmmaker Jim Jarmusch (Broken Flowers, Only Lovers Left Alive), renowned Astrophysicist and Science Communicator Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson (Cosmos on FOX) and comedian Martin Starr (HBO’s Silicon Valley) among a host of other musicians and personalities. Official selection of the 2015 SXSW Film Festival and 2015 Hot Docs Festival. Original photograph by Ian Scott Stoner.
Modern-day Mozart Hot Sugar creates one-of-a-kind music made entirely out of sounds from the world around him. When he splits with his internet-famous girlfriend (rapper Kitty), he embarks on an existentialist journey to Paris to move on with his life while hunting for increasingly unique and exotic sounds to sample and turn into beats. From executive producers David Gordon Green, Danny McBride, and Jody Hill and featuring Jim Jarmusch, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and many other musicians and personalities. Original photograph by Ian Scott Stoner.
