‘Chasing Summer’ Writer and Star Iliza Shlesinger Channels Summer Nostalgia for Sundance Feature

Name: Iliza Shlesinger Notable past credits: The stand-up comic, who won “Last Comic Standing” in 2008, is known for “The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show,” six comedy specials for Netflix, and the late-night talk show “Truth & Iliza.” Sundance Project: “Chasing Summer,” which she wrote and stars in, directed by Josephine Decker and costarring Garrett Wareing, Lola Tung, Cassidy Freeman, Tom Welling and Megan Mullally.  “It was really a labor of love, and it’s so special to get to share it with all these people that we basically had summer camp with for 19 days this summer in St. Louis,” Shlesinger says of the film, which follows a woman who returns to her hometown after a breakup and losing her job and reunites with friends and former love interests from her past. Shlesinger came up with the idea in 2018, and sent herself an email at the time with the concept.  “The email was something along the lines of what if high school came back to get you and what if, and I don’t want to give anything away in this, but it was basically about getting to relive that last summer that we’ve all had right after you graduate high school,” she says, “and how

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