Name:
Ella Glendining
Ella Glendining
County:
Norfolk
Norfolk
Email:
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Website:
https://vimeo.com/user8516224
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Role:
actor | director | screenwriter
actor | director | screenwriter
Bio:
A graduate of Norwich University of the Arts, Ella Glendining has written and directed several short films. ‘POWER TO THE MINI BEASTS’ won Best Experimental Short at the BFI Future Film Festival 2016, a two-minute film that explores the feeling of being part of a minority. In 2017 she wrote and directed a film produced with Screen South for Channel Four’s Random Acts called ‘Like Sunday’, which was screened at the BFI Future Film Festival 2018. In 2018 Ella completed a 20-minute documentary commissioned by the National Paralympic Heritage Trust about disability and childhood for installation at an exhibition on the history of the Paralympics. She is currently working on her first feature film which has been awarded funding by the BFI Doc Society. ‘Is There Anybody Out There?’ is a documentary about Ella’s search for other people with the same rare disability as her, also documenting her unexpected pregnancy and journey to becoming a mum. Ella is also an actor, having performed with inclusive physical theatre company Total Ensemble from 2013 – 2016. She was accepted onto BBC Class Act 2017, a national programme to support and raise the profile of disabled actors. Ella has performed in a number of short films and has done some voice acting for BBC Radio 3, including playing Frances Cecil in Rex Obano’s ‘The Moors of England’. In 2020 she appeared in an episode of BBC One’s ‘Casualty’. Ella was named one of Screen International’s Screen Stars of Tomorrow 2020.
A graduate of Norwich University of the Arts, Ella Glendining has written and directed several short films. ‘POWER TO THE MINI BEASTS’ won Best Experimental Short at the BFI Future Film Festival 2016, a two-minute film that explores the feeling of being part of a minority. In 2017 she wrote and directed a film produced with Screen South for Channel Four’s Random Acts called ‘Like Sunday’, which was screened at the BFI Future Film Festival 2018. In 2018 Ella completed a 20-minute documentary commissioned by the National Paralympic Heritage Trust about disability and childhood for installation at an exhibition on the history of the Paralympics. She is currently working on her first feature film which has been awarded funding by the BFI Doc Society. ‘Is There Anybody Out There?’ is a documentary about Ella’s search for other people with the same rare disability as her, also documenting her unexpected pregnancy and journey to becoming a mum. Ella is also an actor, having performed with inclusive physical theatre company Total Ensemble from 2013 – 2016. She was accepted onto BBC Class Act 2017, a national programme to support and raise the profile of disabled actors. Ella has performed in a number of short films and has done some voice acting for BBC Radio 3, including playing Frances Cecil in Rex Obano’s ‘The Moors of England’. In 2020 she appeared in an episode of BBC One’s ‘Casualty’. Ella was named one of Screen International’s Screen Stars of Tomorrow 2020.
Previous Industry Experience:
yes
yes
IMDB Website:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9562992/
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9562992/
Professional bodies affiliated with:
no
no
Selected Credits:
Feature in Production: 'Is There Anybody Out There?'
Shorts: 'Born', 'Like Sunday', 'The One You Were Born In'.