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<div><strong>The Last Summer Before Smartphones</strong> unfolds over the last Saturday in August 2006, following Cass, a recent college graduate whose plans to leave her Massachusetts hometown have quietly fallen apart. As she drifts through the day with her camcorder—between old friends, the children she babysits, her family, and the local movie theater where she grew up—the film gradually widens into a portrait of an entire community. Around her, children cling to the last days of summer, adults reckon with the lives they've built, and older generations confront the distance between memory and reality.
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<div>My intention with The Last Summer Before Smartphones is to tell a story about people at different stages of life navigating the space between who they thought they would become and who they are becoming. Through a single day in one town, the film explores the hopes, disappointments, anxieties, and possibilities that connect children, young adults, parents, and grandparents, suggesting that the questions we ask ourselves about who we are and who we want to become never really disappear. At the same time, I wanted to capture a specific moment in recent history: a world that sits in an unusual space between memory and nostalgia. Twenty years later, 2006 still feels familiar enough to recognize but distant enough to reveal how profoundly everyday life, communities, and the way we experience time have changed.
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<div><strong>This is an independent short film made with a small local cast and crew. </strong>Funding will directly support cast and crew pay, locations, production design, costumes, sound, transportation, meals, music, and post-production, allowing us to faithfully recreate the world in the summer of 2006.
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<div><strong>Every contribution helps</strong> us give this story the care and attention it deserves. Our goal is to create a film about the hopes, disappointments, and possibilities that connect people at every stage of life, and to capture a moment in recent history that already feels both familiar and impossibly distant.
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