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Supported Projects > On the Line

On the Line

Every night, teenage volunteers at a teen crisis hotline respond to calls from their anonymous peers. By closely following two volunteers, we discover how the work connects to their lives and what it means to share the trauma of strangers.

Project Details

Status In Progress

Type Documentary Short

Director(s) Ellie Wen

SFFILM Support

FilmHouse Residency 2021

FilmHouse Residency 2020

Director/ Producer/ Editor Ellie Wen

Ellie Wen is an award-winning filmmaker from Hong Kong and Los Angeles. She is an alumna of Film Independent’s Project Involve fellowship program and recently completed her MFA in Documentary Film at Stanford University. Her films have been featured on The Guardian, The New York Times, Short of the Week, SoulPancake, selected as Vimeo Staff Pick, and screened at premier festivals around the world. She lives in San Francisco and is developing her next documentary as an artist-in-residence in the SFFILM FilmHouse Residency Program.

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