The opening film of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, “Summertime” chronicles the intersecting stories of 25 young spoken word poets over a day in Los Angeles. Born of the director’s mind-blowing interaction with a workshop where performers from across the City of Angels recited fearlessly personal texts, the project was structured so that their voices could individually shine as well as coalesce in the context of a larger, unified, and gloriously moving narrative experiment — part urban musical and part sociological art.

• Director:  Carlos López Estrada
• Writer:  Dave Harris
• Writer:  27 Get Lit Poets
• Producer:  Kimberly Stuckwisch
• Producer:  Jeffrey Soros
• Producer:  Alisa Tager
• Producer:  Simon Horsman
• Producer:  Diane Luby Lane
• Executive Producer:  Patrick Murray
• Executive Producer:  Andrew Blau

Produced by LAMF