# animate! › Films › Dear Nelson by Sarah Cox › full production credits

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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, live action and animation, digital animation, love, long-distance relationships, letters, literary adaptation, filmmaker, animation director

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**Dear Nelson** a film by Sarah Cox

2001, 5 min 32 sec

### a film by Sarah Cox

### direction

**director**
Sarah Cox

### based upon

**actual credit**
adapted from

**title of original material**
"Lettres á Nelson Algren"

**author**
Simone de Beauvoir

**type of adapted source material**
in book "Beloved Chicago Man"

**copyright**
© Editions Gallimard

### cast in picture

**Simone de Beauvoir**
Julia Rayner

### voice-over

**Nelson Algren**
Mac Macdonald

### live-action personnel

**director of photography**
Kieran McGuigan

**camera operator**
Rory Moles

**gaffer**
Barry Read

**production assistant**
Serena Jenks
jamie Marshall

### image personnel

**animation**
Layla Atkinson

**graphics**
Shelley Pellegrin

**titles**
Ian Cross

**visual effects**
Danny Etherington
Mark Holden

**telecine operator or colourist**
Max Horton

**rostrum camera**
Nick Summers
Peter Tupy

**editor**
Rod Main

### sound personnel

**music**
Pierre Archimbault
Oliver Davies

**sound designer**
Pierre Archimbault
Oliver Davies

### production personnel

**post production**
Julia Wigginton

**producer**
Daniell Susijn

### support

**primary funding**
Arts Council of England/Channel Four

© Sarah Cox 2001

**Dear Nelson** film, stills and other materials © Sarah Cox 2001