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2 unusual facts about Stolen Summer


Stolen Summer

Directed by first time writer/director Pete Jones, Stolen Summer is the first film produced for Project Greenlight, an independent film competition created by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, and sponsored by HBO.

Project Greenlight aired on HBO as a documentary series chronicling the selection of Jones's script from approximately seven thousand entries, and the production of the film in Chicago in 2001.


Michelle Sy

In addition, 2002 release Stolen Summer, which Sy produced, was the first independent film stemming from Project Greenlight, a film competition made as a TV series with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.


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