Iliza Shlesinger wrote and stars in “Chasing Summer,” an upcoming romantic dramedy directed by award-winning filmmaker Josephine Decker. The filmmakers say the picture will provide a “contemporary take on the millennial-coming-of-age” tale, but will tell the story through a distinctly female lens.

The film boasts an impressive ensemble that includes Megan Mullally (“Will and Grace”), Garrett Wareing (“The Long Walk”), Lola Tung (“The Summer I Turned Pretty”), Tom Welling (“Smallville”), Aimee Garcia (“Dexter”), Cassidy Freeman (“The Righteous Gemstones”) and Jeff Perry (“Scandal”).

Shlesinger is an actor, writer and stand-up comic whose on-screen credits include “Good on Paper” (which she also wrote), “Spenser Confidential,” “Pieces of a Woman,” “The Righteous Gemstones” and “Instan

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