A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Born:
June 30, 1971
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 Sudwestrundfunk, a major German TV network. The film won eighteen international awards including four Best Feature and four Audience Choice awards (2000). She is currently in post-production on THE GREAT DESPAIR, a science fiction comedy sponsored by B&H Photo, to be released later this year. Thier wrote, produced and directed over a dozen short films winning numerous Best Short awards and recognitions world-wide. She was one of the ten nominees for the White House Project Emerging Artist Award (2010), is a NYFA fellowship receipient in screenwriting/playwrighting (2008), and her scripts were selected four consecutive times by the IFP's Independent Film Week (2005-2009). -- from Ela Thier's website
Consulting Producer:
2023 Tillie
Director:
2012 Foreign Letters
2017 Tomorrow Ever After
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Editor:
2012 Foreign Letters
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Producer:
2012 Foreign Letters
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Story:
2011 Puncture
2012 Foreign Letters
2017 Tomorrow Ever After
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Writer:
2011 Puncture
2012 Foreign Letters
2017 Tomorrow Ever After
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.