In the Summers (2024)
- Wed, Oct 9
Director: Alessandra Lacorazza Run Time: 98 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2024
Starring: Emma Ramos, Leslie Grace, Lio Mehiel, Residente, Sasha Calle
Country: United States
Language: English, Spanish
About the film:
World Premiere and US Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Winner, 2024 Sundance Film Festival.
Siblings Violeta and Eva live in California with their mother, but every summer they travel to Las Cruces, New Mexico, to spend time with their loving but unpredictable father, Vicente. Over the course of four formative summers that span adolescence to early adulthood, Violeta and Eva learn to appreciate their father as a person, his flaws and limitations inseparable from his passion and tenderness. Lovers come and go, the backyard goes to seed, but the idea of home remains knotty and elusive.
“The feature is a visual poem, an enveloping four-stanza ode to experiences shared by a man and his daughters.”
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter
This powerful and deeply personal directorial debut from Alessandra Lacorazza offers a nuanced study of young people questioning their place within their families, their communities, and their identities. Winner of the US Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, In The Summers proves both an emotional capsule of growing up within a fragmented family and a love letter to the resilience needed to survive.
About the filmmaker:
Alessandra Lacorazza is a queer Colombian-American writer-director and editor based in Brooklyn. Their work deals with personal and cultural memory, and incorporates themes of alienation and resilience.
Her debut feature In the Summers (2024) won the U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where Lacorazza also took home the U.S. Dramatic Directing Award. Lacorazza’s short film Mami (2019) had its world premiere at Palm Springs ShortFest 2019 and was an official selection at NALIP, New York Latino Film Festival, Durban Film Festival and Nitehawk Shorts. As an editor, her work has focused on the queer and latinx communities, has been featured at various festivals and online publications, and was short-listed for the Oscars (After Maria [2019]).
They are also a worker-owner of the Meerkat Media Coop, where they direct, produce, and edit artful and impactful videos for foundations, news magazines, publishers and non-profits.
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