Born of director Carlos López Estrada’s mind-blowing interaction with a workshop where performers from across the City of Angels recited fearlessly personal texts, Summertime is a gloriously moving narrative experiment — part urban musical and part sociological art.
Over the course of a hot summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelenos intersect. A skating guitarist, a tagger, two wannabe rappers, an exasperated fast-food worker, a limo driver—they all weave in and out of each other’s stories. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home, and fear. One of them just wants to find someplace that still serves good cheeseburgers.
Director Biography
Born in 1988 in Mexico City, Carlos López Estrada is a filmmaker, music video director, commercial director, theatre director, and actor. He has directed numerous short films and videos, theatrical productions and the feature Blindspotting (2018), Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) and the forthcoming live action remake of Walt Disney’s Robin Hood.
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