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A dark prison comedy about the secret life of a correctional officer who gets transferred to a job in the letter room, where a new world suddenly opens to him.
Directed: Elvira Lind
Scrip: Elvira Lind
Music: Paulo Stagnaro
Photography: Sam Chase
Cast: Oscar Isaac, Alia Shawkat, Brian Petsos, Tony Gillan, Michael Hernandez, Eileen Galindo, John Douglas Thompson, Kenneth Heaton, Larry Smith, Guillermo Estrada, William Merrell
Sunday 14 18:00 H
La Filmoteca
Elvira Lind
Born in 1981 in Copenhagen, Elvira Lind graduated from The School of Media and Creative Arts in Cape Town where she majored in Documentary Film. She received two awards for her final year achievements. Since then, she has made a career working in the field, directing and shooting documentaries of various lengths for Television, Cinema and Web. Elvira’s feature documentary “Bobbi Jene” premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2017. It won all awards in its category: Best Documentary Feature, Best Cinematography in a Documentary Feature and Best Editing in a Documentary Feature. It also won Best Documentary Feature award at the Philadelphia Film Festival and competed for best feature doc at a long line of festivals including: BFI London Film Festival, Visons du Réel, Hong KongInternational Film Festival, Docs Barcelona, Cinema Eye Honors, Bratislava International Film Festival, The Danish FilmAcademy Awards, Tel Aviv Doc and more. The film was subsequently released in Cinemas in the US by Oscilloscope, as well as in theaters across Denmark, Sweden and Spain. It is now available on Netflix. Elvira’s first documentary feature “Songs for Alexis” premiered in Toronto at HOT DOCS in 2014. It competed at a longline of International film festivals across the world and was later released on TV and Itunes. In 2015 Elvira received the Reel Talent Award at the Copenhagen Documentary Festival for her work. Her first International doc TV series “Twiz and Tuck” was launched on VICELAND in 2017. Elvira currently lives and works out of New York and is writing and developing fiction and documentaries projects.”The Letter Room” is her fiction debut.
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Sinopsis
A dark prison comedy about the secret life of a correctional officer who gets transferred to a job in the letter room, where a new world suddenly opens to him.
Intérpretes:
Oscar Isaac, Alia Shawkat, Brian Petsos, Tony Gillan, Michael Hernandez, Eileen Galindo, John Douglas Thompson, Kenneth Heaton, Larry Smith, Guillermo Estrada, William Merrell.
Projection
Sunday 14 18:00
La Filmoteca
Elvira Lind
Born in 1981 in Copenhagen, Elvira Lind graduated from The School of Media and Creative Arts in Cape Town where she majored in Documentary Film. She received two awards for her final year achievements. Since then, she has made a career working in the field, directing and shooting documentaries of various lengths for Television, Cinema and Web. Elvira’s feature documentary “Bobbi Jene” premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2017. It won all awards in its category: Best Documentary Feature, Best Cinematography in a Documentary Feature and Best Editing in a Documentary Feature. It also won Best Documentary Feature award at the Philadelphia Film Festival and competed for best feature doc at a long line of festivals including: BFI London Film Festival, Visons du Réel, Hong KongInternational Film Festival, Docs Barcelona, Cinema Eye Honors, Bratislava International Film Festival, The Danish FilmAcademy Awards, Tel Aviv Doc and more. The film was subsequently released in Cinemas in the US by Oscilloscope, as well as in theaters across Denmark, Sweden and Spain. It is now available on Netflix. Elvira’s first documentary feature “Songs for Alexis” premiered in Toronto at HOT DOCS in 2014. It competed at a longline of International film festivals across the world and was later released on TV and Itunes. In 2015 Elvira received the Reel Talent Award at the Copenhagen Documentary Festival for her work. Her first International doc TV series “Twiz and Tuck” was launched on VICELAND in 2017. Elvira currently lives and works out of New York and is writing and developing fiction and documentaries projects.”The Letter Room” is her fiction debut.
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