2020 ShortFest Archive
In competition for Best Live-Action Short Over 15 Minutes
film synopsis
film details
director biography
BIO - 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 Reel, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Docs Barcelona, Cinema Eye Honors, Bratislava International Film Festival, The Danish Film Academy 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 long line 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.