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This film is about a meeting of two teenage friends in a forest. They are great friends until one confesses his feeling for the other.

"Summer" is a low budget short. It features two young mates messing around in the forest. They devised a game of catching falling leaves, which involves a lot of physical contact. One thing led to another, and Leung confessed his feelings to Will. It is a rather standard plot, and it is not particularly engaging either. In fact, I found "Summer" rather boring. I have to point out though, the positivity of the ending is nice and certainly welcomed. It gives young people hope that things are not necessarily bad after coming out.

This film lacks the experienced hand of a good producer to steer it away from being a tired and hackneyed 9 minute exploration on the well worn subject of coming out to a mate. A dedicated and ambitious producer would have spent more time developing this script into something more interesting.

Whilst the director's composition of shots and choice of angles is appealing and shows promise he couldhave benefited from a more mature and adventurous producer's input on the narrative and guidance on the film's intentions. That the director has not gone on to do another larger project might have more to do with the producer's failings and less to do with the director's promise.

The cinematography deserves credit for capturing a still calm from the atmosphere of the woodland scenes.

Two mates . Talks, games, jokes, a kiss. And new talk. It is complicated to say something significant about a decent short film, seductive for freshness, not great fot the high prudence of the director, with interesting beginning but with a conventional end, proposing a story of friendship but ignoring the oportunities of story. Short, a nice film, for the performances, first.

It's a shame to say that I found there to be not much point to this one and it had such potential as well. It could have been a cute story about two lads falling in love or at least one straight ones acceptance of the other, but the resolution didn't have enough detail and the ending seemed to come too quickly as if it was an instalment of a series instead and we had to wait for the next part.