Summer Shelton

Producer, Visiting Faculty

SUMMER SHELTON is a filmmaker from North Carolina whose produced works include MAINE (Tribeca Film Festival) and KEEP THE CHANGE (Tribeca Film Festival Best Narrative Feature; FIPRESCI Critics’ Prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival). She was Executive Producer of PEOPLE PLACES THINGS (Sundance Film Festival), and Producer of ICARUS (short, New Directors/New Films) and LITTLE ACCIDENTS (Sundance Film Festival). She worked on the producing teams for acclaimed director Ramin Bahrani on his films GOODBYE SOLO (Venice Film Festival); PLASTIC BAG (short, Venice Film Festival), AT ANY PRICE (Venice Film Festival) and IF DREAMS WERE LIGHTING, RURAL HEALTH CRISIS (short, Telluride Film Festival). She has been the recipient of a Sundance Institute Creative Producing Fellowship, a Rotterdam Producing Fellowship, Film Independent Sloan Producing Fellowship and Cannes Producing Fellowship along with receiving the 2018 INDEPENDENT SPIRIT PRODUCERS AWARD. In 2023, her directorial debut YOU & I screened as an Official Selection of the Nashville Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, River Run International Film Festival and debuted internationally at the American Film Festival. The film was released by Slated Distribution and is available on streaming platforms.