Three Oscar-Nominated Producers Board a Documentary Shot Inside Immigration Court

Deadline reports that Geeta Gandbhir, Sam Pollard and Alisa Payne, all Academy Award nominees, are joining Water Cooler as executive producers. The short documentary, which Deadline calls Oscar-contending, was directed by Emma V.F., who filmed in the corridors of the immigration court at Federal Plaza in New York City. She shot openly, and the material Deadline describes includes scenes of jarring contrast involving ICE agents. Executive-producer credits on a short are usually a signal about the film's ambitions rather than its content; here the setting is the story — a working court building, filmed from the hallway.