Ellis

Ellis a fourteenminute 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 nowshuttered Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital Following its opening in 1902 approximately 12 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