Ellis
6.8
Ellis, a fourteen-minute film directed by JR and written by Academy Award winner Eric Roth, tells the elusive story of countless immigrants whose pursuit of a new life led them to the now-shuttered Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital. Following its opening in 1902, approximately 1.2 million people passed through the facility, where the Statue of Liberty can be seen from the windows. Languishing in a sort of purgatory awaiting their fate, many were never discharged.
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JR Director · Eric Roth Screenplay Nils Frahm Composer
United States release October 4, 2015 · Produced in United States · Production Emerson Collective
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Unframed USA
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Emerson Collective
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English
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United States · October 4, 2015
Premiere · The New Yorker Festival
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