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Director Biography - Elinor Pierce
Elinor (Ellie) Pierce is a Boston-based independent filmmaker and writer with a day job in the humanities. Her multimedia production experience includes a Webby Award-winning website, an educational film, FREMONT, USA (2008), and two short documentaries, AUTISM: A SOMALI-AMERICAN STORY (2013) and LES DEUX (2019). Ellie is the author of Pluralism in Practice (Orbis 2023), a collection of place-based case studies; she is the co-editor of the award-winning volume With the Best of Intentions and the festschrift Pilgrimage, Place, and Pluralism. Ellie produced, directed, and helped edit the short documentary film ABRAHAM’S BRIDGE (2024).
Director Statement
When I first learned about a project to co-locate a mosque, synagogue, and church in Omaha, Nebraska, it was still just an idea on paper. As a researcher engaged in public scholarship on religion and interfaith relations in America, I watched as their vision began to take shape, captivated by Tri-Faith as model and metaphor of pluralism.
With the help of Omaha-based cinematographer Justin Limoges, in 2021 we began to document this timely and urgent story. Together, we observed as diverse communities confronted unanticipated challenges, from the limits of inclusion to the war in the Middle East.
ABRAHAM'S BRIDGE invites audiences onto the stunning 38-acre campus, and into their aspirational vision. I want viewers to experience Tri-Faith and the film ABRAHAM’S BRIDGE as I do, as a meditation on hope. This is a particular, place-based articulation, expressed in brick and mortar and cultivated in the garden. It is quietly disruptive and decidedly practical. Here, above the currents of difference and division, hope is not passive or abstract: it is active, experimental, and ongoing. And, as founder Rabbi Aryeh Azriel observes, “This work will never be done.”
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Something is happening in the heartland: here, a mosque, synagogue, church, and interfaith center are connected by a circular wooden bridge, an organic donation garden, and a quietly disruptive vision. Can this new model of coexistence in the American Midwest bridge the rising currents of division?
- Year2024
- Runtime36 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- DirectorElinor Pierce
- ProducerElinor Pierce
- Co-ProducerCinematographer: Justin Limoges; Editor: Jon Mercer
Director Biography - Elinor Pierce
Elinor (Ellie) Pierce is a Boston-based independent filmmaker and writer with a day job in the humanities. Her multimedia production experience includes a Webby Award-winning website, an educational film, FREMONT, USA (2008), and two short documentaries, AUTISM: A SOMALI-AMERICAN STORY (2013) and LES DEUX (2019). Ellie is the author of Pluralism in Practice (Orbis 2023), a collection of place-based case studies; she is the co-editor of the award-winning volume With the Best of Intentions and the festschrift Pilgrimage, Place, and Pluralism. Ellie produced, directed, and helped edit the short documentary film ABRAHAM’S BRIDGE (2024).
Director Statement
When I first learned about a project to co-locate a mosque, synagogue, and church in Omaha, Nebraska, it was still just an idea on paper. As a researcher engaged in public scholarship on religion and interfaith relations in America, I watched as their vision began to take shape, captivated by Tri-Faith as model and metaphor of pluralism.
With the help of Omaha-based cinematographer Justin Limoges, in 2021 we began to document this timely and urgent story. Together, we observed as diverse communities confronted unanticipated challenges, from the limits of inclusion to the war in the Middle East.
ABRAHAM'S BRIDGE invites audiences onto the stunning 38-acre campus, and into their aspirational vision. I want viewers to experience Tri-Faith and the film ABRAHAM’S BRIDGE as I do, as a meditation on hope. This is a particular, place-based articulation, expressed in brick and mortar and cultivated in the garden. It is quietly disruptive and decidedly practical. Here, above the currents of difference and division, hope is not passive or abstract: it is active, experimental, and ongoing. And, as founder Rabbi Aryeh Azriel observes, “This work will never be done.”
Ratings
Rate P
Something is happening in the heartland: here, a mosque, synagogue, church, and interfaith center are connected by a circular wooden bridge, an organic donation garden, and a quietly disruptive vision. Can this new model of coexistence in the American Midwest bridge the rising currents of division?
- Year2024
- Runtime36 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUnited States
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish
- DirectorElinor Pierce
- ProducerElinor Pierce
- Co-ProducerCinematographer: Justin Limoges; Editor: Jon Mercer
