The Summer Field
11/09/2021(US) | Drama | 6m
After being drafted to a pro track team, a midwestern young teen needs to decide between his future career and his dementia-ridden grandfather.
Writer and Director: Jiayang Liu
Producers: Joe Zheng | Jiayang Liu
1st Assistant Director: Damin Grussendorf
2nd Assistant Director: Zach Nelson
Cinematographer: Jiayang Liu
Editor: Jiayang Liu
Original Score: Sam Mohart
Cast: Ben Petersen | Harland Allen | Joker | Krisy
Assistant Camera: Ian Gibson
Production Assistant: Koren Anderson
Boom Operator: Isabelle Muldowney
Shot on Location in Casper, Wyoming
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19726010
Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-summer-field/
Contacts, Rights, Distribution: Jiayang Liu / jiayangliufilm@gmail.com
“Every day we are plagued with many difficult decisions. We are constantly split between things we cherish the most. And we always have to make sacrifices choosing what’s truly important in our lives. This movie captures this invisible inner battle in a contemporary time period within a young runner/rancher. It’s a drama without antagonists and a western without revolvers.“
– Jiayang Liu Director Statement
FESTIVALS
- Lone Star Film Festival – Best Student Short Film Award 2022
- All American High School Film Festival – Best Drama Nomination 2022
- Rhode Island International Film Festival (Flickers) – Semi Finalist 2023
- Student World Impact Film Festival – Best Drama Nomination 2023
- DC Independent Film Festival – Finalist 2022
- Sun Valley High School Film Festival – Finalist 2022
- Indy Shorts International Film Festival – Official Selection 2022
- Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival – Official Selection 2022
- The Poppy Jasper International Film Festival – Official Selection 2022
- Chinese American Film Festival – Official Selection 2022
- International Brightlight Film Festival – Official Selection 2022
- 307 International Film Festival – Official Selection 2022
- Newark International Film Festival – Official Selection 2022
- Short Shot Fest – Official Selection 2022
- Wheaton Film Festival – Official Selection 2022
- The Dance of Cinema Film Festival – Official Selection 2022
- First-Time Filmmaker Sessions – Official Selection 2022
- University of Southern California – Accepted 2022
- Chapman University – Accepted 2022
- Florida State University – Accepted 2022
- Loyola Marymount University – Accepted 2022
- University of California Irvine – Accepted 2022
- ArtCenter College of Design – Accepted 2022
- Emerson College – Accepted 2022
