Ela
Thier, partner
Ela Thier's
romantic-comedy, The Wedding Cow, was produced by SWR, a major German television network, and garnered twenty awards at international
film festivals including nine Best Feature and five Audience Choice awards. Currently, Thier is co-producing her directorial debut with
her script A Story for Old Lovers, starring Jay O. Sanders (Half Nelson, Day After Tomorrow, JFK) and Tony-award winner
Maryann Plunket (The Squid and The Whale). Among several offers to option her work,
Thier was also commissioned by Danziger & Dellano to write Vanish
Point, a true-life story of a battle fought and won over corporate corruption in the health-care industry.
A prolific writer, Thier's work was selected by the Independent Film Project (IFP) the past three
consecutive years, with two scripts selected in 2007.
Thier was born and raised in Israel and at a young age wrote, directed and performed in musical theater productions.
She studied Film and TV at New York University where she wrote, directed and performed in award-winning shorts including Be With Me, Plato's Symposium,
and Clamor: A Silent Film About Making Noise. In her twenties, Thier studied Talmud
and Jewish law, and organized events to foster dialogue between Jewish and Muslim communities. Returning to filmmaking, she
began teaching screenwriting in January 2006 with eight writers attending, and in the span of two years had hundreds of writers
attend her workshops.