The Letter Room is a 2020 American short comedy-drama film directed by Elvira Lind. [2] In November 2020, it premiered at HollyShorts Film Festival. [3] It was also nominated for Best Short Film at Tribeca Film Festival [4] and the Palm Springs International ShortFest.
[5] The Letter Room was produced by Sofia Sondervan and executive produced by Oscar Isaac, Elvira Lind, Jason Spire, Ryan. THE LETTER ROOM by Elvira Lind, starring Oscar Isaac and Alia Shawkat. Nominated for an Oscar® in the Live Action Short Film category, The Letter Room follows an empathetic corrections officer (Oscar Isaac) who finds escape in the deeply personal letters written to an inmate on death row.
Co-starring Alia Shawkat. Followed by a pre-recorded conversation with the creative team Elvira Lind, Sofia Sondervan, and Gena Konstantinakos. Moderated by NYWIFT Board.
Elvira Lind's The Letter Room, nominated for Best Live Action Short Film at the Academy Awards, presents a sharp and poignant look at life inside prison walls, and what it means to care for our fellow man. About the Director Elvira Lind is a Danish director from Copenhagen based in New York. She finished film school in Cape Town, in 2006, majoring in documentary film and has worked within that field since directing and shooting documentaries of various lengths for TV, cinema and web so far on 4 different continents.
The Letter Room: Directed by Elvira Lind. With Oscar Isaac, Alia Shawkat, Brian Petsos, Tony Gillan. When a corrections officer is transferred to the letter room, he soon finds himself enmeshed in a prisoner's deeply private life.
The Writers Room - New York City's and the nation's first nonprofit, shared writing work space - open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year - is the essential resource for writers living in and visiting NYC. Occupying a 3000 sf loft in an historic cast-iron building, this sanctuary offers its members the rare delights of silence, tranquility, order and creative living in the midst of a busy city. The Letter Room Written and Directed by Elvira Lind.
- Academy Award nominated for best short film, 2021. 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. Starring Oscar Isaac, Alia Shawkat, John Douglas Thompson, Eileen Galindo, Brian.
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