Stolen Summer is a 2002
drama film about a
Catholic boy who befriends a terminally ill
Jewish boy and tries to convert him, believing that it is the only way the Jewish boy will get to
Heaven. Directed by first time writer/director Pete Jones,
Stolen Summer is the first film produced for
Project Greenlight, an independent film competition created by
Ben Affleck and
Matt Damon, and sponsored by
HBO.
Project Greenlight aired on
HBO as a documentary series chronicling the selection of Jones's script from approximately seven thousand entries, and the production of the film in
Chicago in 2001.