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When help shows up at the door of a down-and-out man, will he be able to accept it?
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Ela ThierDirectorTomorrow Ever After, Foreign Letters,
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Neal HemphillWriterJulien, Dressed
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Neal HemphillProducerJulien, Dressed, The Muse
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Christine NessProducer
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Neal HemphillKey Cast
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Pete BradburyKey Cast
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Nabil VinasKey Cast
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Project Type:Short
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Runtime:13 minutes 5 seconds
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Completion Date:September 24, 2012
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Production Budget:3,000 USD
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Country of Origin:United States
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Country of Filming:United States
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:Digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Ela Thier, an Israeli-American filmmaker, is a critically acclaimed writer, director and actor. She is known for creating dramedies that bring laughter and tears to diverse audiences across racial and socio-economic lines, and unifies audiences across political spectra.
Thier's critically acclaimed Tomorrow Ever After (2017) won numerous major festival awards and will be released in 2018. Her award-winning feature, Foreign Letters, was distributed by Film Movement (2012) and shown at over 140 festivals world-wide. Thier directed over a dozen short films winning numerous Best Short awards. Her film, A Summer Rain, screened at hundreds of venues and became a YouTube sensation.
Thier worked as a writer-for-hire on Puncture, starring Chris Evans. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and released by Millenium Films (2011). She wrote The Wedding Cow, a romantic comedy produced by Sudwestrundfunk, a major German TV network (2000), winning 18 major festival awards.
Thier is a recipient of the Jerome Foundation Film Production Grant (2015), was a nominee of the White House Project Emerging Artist Award (2010), and a recipient of the NYFA Fellowship Grant in Screenwriting (2008). She teaches popular screenwriting, film directing, and producing workshops in New York City, under the alias of The Independent Film School. See filmography at IMDB.