In this inspiring story of grit and determination,
a runaway child from the streets of India is 
adopted by a family and becomes one of the top 
chefs in the world. Yet it was his return to India 
as an adult looking for his family that brought
even greater challenges.

From a five-year-old orphan on the streets 
of Chennai, Madras, India, to establishing 
himself as one of Toronto's top celebrated 
chefs, the journey for Chef Sash Simpson 
has been as challenging
as it has been triumphant.

At eight years old, Sash was adopted by a 
Canadian philanthropists, and Families for
Children orphanage founders, Sandra and 
Lloyd Simpson.  His new home, with 
thirty-one siblings, was a bright contrast
to the lonely life of destitution he left 
behind.  However, it would be these two 
opposing worlds that would influence Sash's
culinary career.  At fourteen, Sash 
developed a talent and passion for food.  
Being a quick study and well-liked, he 
excelled in various kitchens 
throughout the city.

With the determination of a child 
surviving alone on the streets of India, 
his appetite for success would only be 
satiated by working in  the best 
restaurants in Toronto.  It was through his
hard work and prodigious culinary skills
that Sash quickly moved up the ranks, until
he became Executive Chef after just a 
few years.  After thirty years of 
developing into a world class chef with a
distinctive, signature blend of globally 
inspired, locally sourced ingredients, 
Chef Simpson is treating Toronto to his
very own restaurant yet has longings to 
find his origins pulls him back to India.

BORN HUNGRY is a film of two halves.  
Opening with the stark reality of 
abandonment, fear, and loneliness of
a little boy's alarming journey into 
the dangerous tumult of India, the 
first act immerses you in Sash's 
experience.  Alone and bewildered, the
cameras stay on top of him, following 
him up and down the trains as he searches 
for his family.  We see this small, 
vulnerable boy mixed in with the huge 
crowds and the unfamiliarity of a big 
city.  We see how India's children can
be overlooked, destined to become one of 
the many street kids, hungry and homeless. 

The film puts you right there with Sash until
he gets adopted and is sent to live with his 
new family in Toronto, Canada. We feel the 
relief as the story unfolds scenes of Sash 
in the presence of his 31 siblings, and 
his rise to celebrity chef. 

The second half of the films follows Sash as he 
transitions 45 years later to celebrity chef,
where we see him dealing with memories of his 
time in India that have been dormant until now.  
We follow Sash back to India where we watch in
real time the places, smells and food trigger 
old memories.  Family and old-memories lead 
Sash's journey as he deals with being torn
between the two families in two different
countries, the one he left behind and the 
one that gave him a new life.