Summer Friend: A Ballet Film
A meditation on transience, connection, longing, love, and loss.
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Adam E. StoneDirectorResting Places: A Ballet Film; Janet: A Silent Ballet Film; Abstractly You Loved Me; A Life Unhappening; Cache Girl Saves the World
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Adam E. StoneWriterResting Places: A Ballet Film; Janet: A Silent Ballet Film; Abstractly You Loved Me; A Life Unhappening; Cache Girl Saves the World
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Adam E. StoneProducerResting Places: A Ballet Film; Janet: A Silent Ballet Film; Abstractly You Loved Me; A Life Unhappening; Cache Girl Saves the World
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Sarah BaerKey CastJanet: A Silent Ballet Film
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Preston Andrew PattersonKey Cast
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Patricia KrejcikChoreographerBella's Teddy Bear
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Hong ZhouDirector of PhotographyBella's Teddy Bear, Transgressions, Abstractly You Loved Me, The Blue Bike, Thank You for the Letter, Dying for Franjibelle,
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Benjamin EllisEditor
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Franz Gregor GuzmanComposer
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Jon ClarksonAudio EngineerAbstractly You Loved Me, A Life Unhappening, Cache Girl Saves the World
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Ned CainSculptor
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Carrie GibbsCeramicist
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Alexis McIntyreHair
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Project Type:Experimental, Short, Other
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Genres:Dance film, ballet film, black film
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Runtime:4 minutes 17 seconds
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Completion Date:August 14, 2016
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Country of Origin:United States
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Country of Filming:United States
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Urban Mediamakers Film Festival (15th Annual)Atlanta, GA
United States
October 7, 2016
World Premiere
Official Selection -
Canada Shorts - Canadian & International Short Film FestivalSaint John, New Brunswick
Canada
December 10, 2016
Canadian Premiere
Official Selection and Award of Distinction -
Utah Dance Film FestivalOrem, Utah
United States
February 24, 2017
Utah Premiere
Official Selection -
Big Muddy Film Festival (39th Annual)Carbondale, IL
United States
February 21, 2017
Illinois Premiere
Official Selection -
Eastern NC Film FestivalWinterville, North Carolina
United States
April 29, 2017
North Carolina Premiere
Official Selection -
Good Things/Small Packages - A Night of Micro-ShortsLittle Rock, Arkansas
United States
March 27, 2017
Arkansas Premiere
Official Selection -
Cinema Soup Film FestivalMattoon, Illinois
United States
September 8, 2017
Central Illinois Premiere
Official Selection -
Columbia Gorge International Film FestivalBig Bear Lake, California
United States
September 22, 2017
California Premiere
Official Selection -
International HALF Film FestivalPalak
India
August 14, 2017
Indian Premiere
Official Selection -
Sao Carlos Videodance FestivalSao Carlos
Brazil
October 28, 2017
South American Premiere
Official Selection
Adam E. Stone's latest film is the feature-length poetic essay film "Atmospheric Marginalia" (2022). His films have been featured at over 140 festivals worldwide, and have won numerous awards. Previous short poem and essay films include "If Any" (2021), "Awake" (2021), "Specks and Flashes" (2020), "Elegy for Unfinished Lives" (2020), "an entombing(dis)entombing" (2020), "Declarations" (2019), and "Gods Die Too" (2018). Previous short dance films include "Do Not Forget the Lost" (2019), "Summer Friend: A Ballet Film" (2016), "Resting Places: A Ballet Film" (2015), and "Janet: A Silent Ballet Film" (2014). He also is the writer, producer, and co-director of the feature-length fictional essay film "Abstractly You Loved Me" (2013), and is one of the co-producers of, and conducted many of the interviews for, the feature-length documentary "Black Hawk Down: The Untold Story" (DVD 2019). In 2012, Stone wrote and produced the spoken-word ballet "A Life Unhappening," which is about the impact of one woman's Alzheimer's disease on three generations of her family. In 2010, he wrote, directed, and produced the DVD novel "Cache Girl Saves the World: A Novel in Visions." He is also the author of three conventional print novels: "Xamon Song" (2006), "Kingston Fugue" (2007), and "The New Harmonies" (2009). He currently lives and works in Carbondale, Illinois.