# animate! › Films › Dear Nelson by Sarah Cox

Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/films/dearnelson/

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

![Dear Nelson, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/dearnelson01.jpg)

### a film by Sarah Cox

### animate! synopsis

Algren and no De Beauvoir makes Nelson a sad boy in these letters from America. An affair to remember, with distance – initially – no object (plane mailing in fact) in these continental correspondences, monochrome messages that style the times and texts of greats.

### key credits

**director**
Sarah Cox

**Simone de Beauvoir**
Julia Rayner

**director of photography**
Kieran McGuigan

**animation**
Layla Atkinson

**editor**
Rod Main

**music**
Pierre Archimbault
Oliver Davies

**producer**
Daniell Susijn

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