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BIOGRAPHY
Summer grew up on a commune in Auckland’s Waitakere ranges where he listened to unique people telling unique tales and soon found himself graduating the Elam School of Fine Art.
He was then awarded funding from the NZ Screen Innovation Production Fund to make the acclaimed documentary Minginui which he filmed in collaboration with good friend Adam Luxton over a year and a half in Te Urewera. Minginui screened at several international film festivals and was exhibited at the Auckland Art Gallery as part of the public art programme.
"Where I grew up people were always telling stories, and I learnt there are always different ways they can be told," says Summer, whose talents with narrative have seen him highly awarded for his documentary and long-format work.
In 2006 Summer directed Let’s Get Inventin’ for TVNZ, which won the Qantas NZ Film & TV Award for Best Children’s & Youth show in both 2006 & 2007, and in 2008 he developed and co-directed the arts documentary series New Artland for the digital network TVNZ6. Summer’s most recent documentary The Kapiti Art Project was a finalist for Best Director of Documentary & Best Arts/Feature Documentary.
Summer is a prodigious filmmaker and was named the SPADA New Filmmaker of the year. His recent short film Patu Ihu, which screened at film festivals including Corona Cork, Hawaii, Soho NY, Cinequest, San Jose and Las Vegas, has been described as ‘a touching exploration of memory and the lifelong influences that a particular event can have upon us’.
Summer’s work is uniquely atmospheric & imaginative - a reflection of his Fine Arts background - and his innate understanding of the flaws and quirks that make us human brings a distinctly engaging truth to his work.