FOREIGN LETTERS
CAST & CREW:
Directed by Ela Tier
My role: Production Designer
SYNOPSIS:
Ellie, a 12-year-old immigrant girl from Israel, is lonely and homesick. Life brightens when she meets Thuy, a Vietnamese refugee her age. Trust slowly builds as the two teach each other about life in America. As Ellie and Thuy become inseparable, they eventually hurt and betray each other.
This feature, about two young immigrant women learning to be friends in their new homeland was set in, set in the early 1980's this feature required period vehicles and costumes and hairstyles, The art department was obsessed with finding the right props, tv's, stereos, calculators (I lost sleep!) that maintained specificity to that era. We shot in NJ and NYC, using locations to suggest two socio-economic backgrounds for the two leads. The great young cast really makes this movie shine in the end and the music by iconic Chava Alberstein.
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