Sommer Garcia

Sommer Garcia Saqr is a Mexican-American and first generation Palestinian-American filmmaker and producer based in Houston, Texas. She produced the award-winning short film, SEPIA which premiered at the 2018 El Paso Film Festival. She is one of the producers on the indie feature, CARNAGE RADIO and the short film, IN TOW which are currently in post-production. Her work focuses on the struggle to find community and belonging, greatly informed by her multicultural upbringing. As an actress, she has worked with Ron Howard in Ed-TV and Gregory Nava in the PBS series, AMERICAN FAMILY. She is a 2022 Fellow of the Southern Producers Lab, an initiative of the New Orleans Film Society. ~April 2022