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Short film · 9:59

Summer With Alicia

A film by Nicholas Joseph Cunha.

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01 / The story

About the film.

Summer feels safer keeping a gun at home. When her girlfriend asks her to get rid of it, she must choose between that sense of security and the relationship.

Format
Short film
Running time
9:59
Filmmaker
Nicholas Joseph Cunha
Channel release
26 May 2018
YouTube views · as of October 21, 2026
96,700
02 / Behind the camera

Meet the filmmaker.

Portrait of Nicholas Joseph Cunha
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Nicholas Joseph Cunha

Nicholas Joseph Cunha is a Brazilian-American director, born in New York and raised in Brazil. Filming and editing dance videos led him toward filmmaking; he later moved to Los Angeles and began directing shorts, features and music videos. His feature work includes Bang! Bang!.

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03 / More from the film

Around the work.

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04 / On screen

The cast.

Portrait of Nicole Fahel
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Nicole Fahel

Nicole Fahel is a Brazilian actor and producer. She moved to Los Angeles in 2015 to study acting and worked across theatre and short films before producing and starring in the feature Bang! Bang!.

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05 / Making the film

Behind the story.

A question of safety

Cunha’s project description frames the film around a conflict between Summer’s reliance on a gun for security and her girlfriend’s request that she remove it from their home.

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06 / The people behind the film

Made together.

Directed by
Nicholas Joseph Cunha
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