FILM:
After completing her MFA , Ella worked for a year at Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures, assisting the Director of Development reading and covering hundreds of scripts.
Ella has written and directed short films, EARTH BENEATH MY FEET and SOFIE, which won BEST SHORT at San Francisco Film Festival; Melbourne International Film Festival; Sydney World Film Festival and Glasgow Film Festival. In 2018 Ella was chosen for Creative Minds in association with Sundance Institute, where she developed her short script CAR BATTERY. Ella has directed 60 min documentary, THE GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT, following the lives of refugee teenage girls resettled in Atlanta. The doc was awarded a WOMEN MAKE MOVIES Fellowship and was distributed via BBC Worldwide, Al Jazeera & Globostat Brazil.