What Happened to Elisa Lam? Documentary Fully Funded!
Steve Barton
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We told you about Jake Anderson and Jared Salas’ What Happened to Elissa Lam? documentary a week or so ago, and we’re back with some really good news! The film has been fully funded!
“We’re proceeding to dive head first into the most mysterious case of the century,” said co-director Jake Anderson. “God help us!” Indeed! Jared Salas co-directs.
Anderson recently spoke with our own Miguel Rodriguez on his Horrible Imaginings Podcast, where they discussed the case and the movie production process. Next week he’ll also be on Brainwaves: Horror and Paranormal Talk Radio, and we plan to go really in-depth around the story itself as a means to lay out exactly what happened.
What Happened to Elisa Lam? will showcase characters from all spectrums of the case — detectives, psychologists, friends of Elisa’s, journalists and filmmakers who became obsessed with the case, Reddit moderators and website owners who saw the case grow into a viral phenomenon, even short-stay and long-term Cecil residents who were accused of killing her.
Synopsis:
Distressed by relationships, difficulties with her college coursework, and worsening psychological troubles, Elisa Lam embarked upon her fateful “West Coast tour” in late January of 2013. On January 31st, she failed to make her daily phone call home; she was declared missing a few days later. The police released the last known sighting of her in the form of a surveillance video recorded inside the elevator of the Cecil Hotel (renamed Stay on Main). The chilling video, which shows Elisa acting peculiar and seemingly hiding from someone, went viral online. Early speculation was that either she was on drugs or being stalked by someone inside the hotel. When police finally released the toxicology report, it only deepened the mystery.
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