The Summer of Gods

A young girl is mystically initiated into her ancestral spiritual tradition by Orishas during a visit to her grandmother’s rural village in Bahia, Brazil.

A personal message from director Eliciana Nascimento about her background and why she made The Summer of Gods.

UNITING THE FORCES: In this first part of Making the Summer of Gods, we take you along as we finish our Kickstarter campaign then leave our home in San Francisco for Bahia, Brazil to shoot the film. Before shooting starts, there's a lot to be done: costume creation, casting, finding the right cre...

II CAPTURING THE VISION: In this second part of Making the Summer of Gods, we assemble our newly formed cast and crew in a small village to spend 9 days racing to get through out shot list.

Join us back in San Francisco as we call on a small army of tech gurus to polish the film with visual effects, foley, sound design, music composition, and editing.