Mad Summer: A Short Film

We are a team of female filmmakers collaborating to create Larissa Salazar's latest short film: Mad Summer. Mad Summer is an award-winning script written and directed by Larissa, produced by Jessica Stossel and Daniella Kaplan, with cinematography by Emu.

All donors will be given a Special Thanks in the film's credits and be the first to receive a link to watch the final short! This film is already partially funded by grants from YoungArts and NFFTY! Shooting is set for August 2024.

"I want to tell this story to increase the representation of female skateboarders in the media and explore their place in popular culture. I'd like to put the skateboarding community on display with this film and show both its positive and negative elements. Skate culture can be amazingly welcoming, but it can also be toxic and misogynistic. Take, for example, one of the world's most prolific and successful skaters, Nyjah Huston, who once said he "personally believes that skateboarding is not for girls at all. Not one bit." My hope is that Mad Summer will prove him wrong...In many ways, this story is an ode to my older brother and is very close to my heart." -Larissa

Originally from Fairfield, CT, Larissa moved to Southern California to pursue Film Production and Peace Studies at Chapman University. She is both a writer and a director pursuing humanistic stories with social themes. Her passion for empathy and desire to eradicate apathy drives her filmmaking. She actively uses her Peace Studies degree to inform her creative processes.

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