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Ela Thier

Born June 30, 1971 (age 55)

Ela Thier's features films are: FOREIGN LETTERS (writer-director-producer), sponsored by B&H Photo and distributed by Film Movement (2012). PUNCTURE (co-writer), a legal drama starring Chris Evans (Fantastic Four, Captain America). The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was released by Millenium Films (2011). THE WEDDING COW (writer), is a romantic comedy produced and released by …

Known For

PuncturePuncture · 2011
Puncture
6.72011
MovieDramaMystery
Based on a true story. Mike Weiss (Chris Evans) is a brilliant but self-destructive Houston attorney whose drug addiction threatens to destroy his career. When he and his law partner Paul Danziger (Mark Kassen) take on a case involving a nurse injured by a contaminated needle, they uncover a $130 billion medical supply monopoly that has been blocking a life-saving safety
TillieTillie · 2023
Tillie
2023
MovieFamily
An eight year old girl adopted from China leads her father to a deeper understanding of what she faces in a new culture and what she longs for from her home country.
109 Billion Followers109 Billion Followers
109 Billion Followers
MovieComedyDrama
A film student makes a documentary about a homeless man who believes that he's the Grim Reaper, while navigating an unlikely love interest, and her broken but loving mother.
Tomorrow Ever AfterTomorrow Ever After · 2017
Tomorrow Ever After
8.02017
MovieComedyDrama
Shaina lives 600 years in the future. War, greed, prejudice, poverty, pollution, violence, loneliness, depression – these are things that she’s read about in history books. When an accident in a physics experiment sends her on a time-travel journey to our times, she assumes that everyone around her is honest, generous and caring, as she recruits the help that she needs to get back home.
Foreign LettersForeign Letters · 2012
Foreign Letters
6.12012
MovieComedyDrama
A bittersweet coming-of-age film, Foreign Letters is itself a love letter to the unshakeable bond between friends. Set in the pre-email era of the 1980s, young Ellie, newly arrived to the US from Israel, anxiously waits for letters from her best friend back home. Suffering from homesickness, language difficulties and rejection at school, life brightens when she meets Thuy, a Vietnamese refugee her age. As the two bond and become inseparable, they eventually hurt each other, and Ellie must find a way to restore their trust. Based on director Ela Thier's personal immigration experience, Foreign Letters is a film about poverty, prejudice, shame, and the healing power of friendship.

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