Stolen Summer is a 2002Americanfilm about a Catholic boy who befriends a terminally ill Jewish boy and tries to convert him, believing it is the only way he will get to Heaven. Directed by first time writer/director Pete Jones, Stolen Summer is the first film produced for Project Greenlight, an independent film competition created by Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Chris Moore, and sponsored by HBO. Project Greenlight aired on HBO as a documentary series chronicling the selection of Jones's script from among thousands of entries, and the production of the film in Chicago in 2001.
"StolenSummer" is the end byproduct of Project Greenlight, a screenwriting contest held almost two years ago by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon as a way of discovering new talent.
The making of "Summer" was chronicled on the HBO series "Project Greenlight." The show was a hilarious and horrifying look into the making of this low-budgeted picture, and its follies came to be the stuff of heavy water-cooler debate.
The core of "Summer" is centered around these two boys, and their failure to engage or even seem real breaks the film in two.
StolenSummer is a 2002 American film about a Catholic boy who befriends a terminally ill Jewish boy and tries to convert him, believing it is the only way he will get to Heaven.
Directed by first time writer/director Pete Jones, StolenSummer is the first film produced for Project Greenlight, an independent film competition created by Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Chris Moore, and sponsored by HBO.
Project Greenlight aired on HBO as a documentary series chronicling the selection of Jones's script from among thousands of entries, and the production of the film in Chicago in 2001.
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