Summertime

Summertime is a 2020 American comedy-drama film directed by Carlos López Estrada from a screenplay by Dave Harris, and executive produced by Kelly Marie Tran. It was inspired by a spoken-word showcase with 25 diverse high school performers. The film premiered in the NEXT section of the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2020. It received a limited theatrical release on July 9, 2021, prior to VOD on September 2, 2021, by Good Deed Entertainment. It received mostly positive reviews from critics. Premise Over the course of a hot summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelinos 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.