Erica Summers

Hailing from Casper, Wyoming, Erica began her filmmaking career at 16 with a short film in which she starred, called "The Stalker." Shortly after the Stalker, she moved to Ocala Florida where she wrote, directed, and produced her first feature film, "Sins of the Flesh," shot mostly in the storage room of the Hollywood video where she and the film's stars worked at the time. Soon after, she wrote/directed/produced a feature bumbling mob-comedy called "For Kevin's Sake" and then a tragically dramatic feature a year later called "Rag Doll" which she later used to raise money for a charity for abused children in Sanford, FL. Desperately longing to return to her roots in horror, the genre she is most passionate about, she then made a thriller/horror feature film in the vein of the 1990's film FEAR, called "Loverboy" and, following that, a creepy creature feature based loosely on a Louisiana slave account called "Mister White." After Mister White she moved to southern Louisiana were she became a company grip and day-player on various local films and TV shows like NCIS: New Orleans, Claws, Scream: the TV show, Eat Brains Love, Preacher, Queen of the South, Sulphur Springs, and many more. Before leaving Louisiana, she wrote her horrific "love letter" to the Southern state and spent several years working toward make the gory body-horror film, "Obsidian" a reality. She stepped behind the video camera to direct her first feature at 16 and has been behind it ever since. Decades later, she remains more passionate about filming than ever. She enjoys putting her cinematic skills to the test as an independent filmmaker. She has written, directed, produced, DP'd, and edited numerous feature films and worked in nearly every crew position in an effort to have a well-rounded applied film education (in addition to her formal film school and college degrees.) Summers has been the recipient of numerous film and video awards including multiple Best Director Awards, Best Feature Film, Best Gore, Best Editing, and Best Horror Feature Film Awards across the globe. She now resides in West Haven, Connecticut and is gearing up for more independent feature films.