Summer Memories

Summer Memories is an animated television series created by Adam Yaniv which airs on The Roku Channel In the United States.

The series was produced by Yaniv's A&N Productions Ltd. in partnership with Aircraft Pictures and Yeti Farm Creative, and premiered on Family Channel in Canada in 2022, followed by ABC in Australia, Amazon Prime in Germany, Showmax in Africa, and Roku in the US.

Created by Adam Yaniv, the series stars Tricia Black as the voice of Jason, a young boy who is romanticizing the memories he made with his best friend Ronnie (Yaniv) over what he sees as the most important summer of his life, which was just a few weeks ago. Yaniv based the show on his own childhood and best friend growing up in Raanana, Israel, and has said that the show draws on Israel both visually and verbally to achieve its unique color palette and joke style.

Cast
The show's voice cast also includes Jason Priestley, Dani Kind, Andrew Phung, Taylor Love, Rashaana Cumberbatch, Andre Sills, Steffi DiDomenicantonio, Rakhee Morzaria, Jonathan Langdon, Tyler Murree, and Cassie Cao.

Awards and nominations
Black won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance in an Animated Program or Series at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023.

The show was also nominated for Best Animated Program or Series, and Sara Peters was nominated for Best Writing in an Animated Program or Series for the episode "Truth or Dare".

Themes, style and narrative arc
The series is known for its surreal take on its characters’ recollections and playing with points of view, as well as using an unreliable narrator.

It's also known for its original music, including its theme song which in itself is a clue to season 1's ending, and appears in multiple forms during the show.

Yaniv has said that while he based the show on his own memories growing up, the show is really a meditation on memories as a whole, and the choices people face in shaping their own and others' reality.

Yaniv has said that while he has a story for season 2, "season 1 is its own complete chapter" and has described the world of Jason's memories as a 'nested world-within-a-world infinite universe, where the same moments are viewed through multiple lenses'.