Carlotta Summers

Carlotta Summers is a multiple award winning, biracial (mixed Black and White/Italian) actress, writer, filmmaker, and daydreamer based in NYC. She was most recently the recipient of the Slamdance Mentorship Award out of 4,200 submissions for her pilot, The Wanderer, featured in Variety here!

A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, a few of her feature film and television credits include "Big Dogs,” (Amazon Prime) & a supporting role in "Lupe," which premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival in 2019 (HBO Max).
 
Carlotta’s first film Butterflies won Best Short Film and Best Actress at the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival as well as Best Screenplay at Kew Gardens Festival of Cinema. It is now streaming on Amazon Prime!
 
Carlotta was also an Associate Producer for the short film, Ponyboi Co-Produced by Stephen Fry & Emma Thompson, which made its NY Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2019.

She most recently wrapped production, Directing and Co-starring in a short proof of concept, American Retail with Bailey Bass (Avatar, Interview with a Vampire) and Geneva Carr (Bull).
 
Carlotta’s goal is to continue to advance the work of minority filmmakers in the industry while paving the way for representation on the screen. Her favorite subjects challenge perception, examine identity, investigate curiosities, and defy conventions. She has since served as a screener for the SXSW Film Festival 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 program and is a member of NYWIFT and The Gotham (formerly IFP).