Bio
Ellen Evans (b.1990, UK) is an award-winning filmmaker whose work has screened at international festivals including Sundance and SXSW, and on public broadcast channels including PBS and the BBC.
Ellen completed her most recent film, MOTHERLAND as part of The Uncertain Kingdom anthology. The film was released in June 2020 to positive reviews from The Financial Times, The Evening Standard and The Guardian. MOTHERLAND is available now on BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema and Amazon Prime.
Ellen is a Lecturer on the MA Cinematic and MFA Creative Documentary by Practice at University College London.
Accolades
2022
Selected for Union Docs Early Production Lab, USA
2021
Motherland screens at Sundance London, UK
2020
Country Girl wins Best Documentary Short at Grierson Awards, UK
Motherland and Country Girl shortlisted for Grierson Award, UK
Country Girl nominated for the Hot Docs International Short Film Prize, Canada
2019
Country Girl wins the Women in Film and TV Award for Best Production at Underwire Film Festival, UK
Life in Miniature wins the Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Short at Aspen ShortsFest, USA
Selected for BAFTA Crew 2019/20
2018
Selected as BFI Doc Society 'Made of Truth' grantee
Life in Miniature wins the IMDB New Filmmaker Award, UK
Selected for the Indie Training Fund's Rising Director's Scheme
2017
Supported by Film Roundhouse as an Emerging Artist
Selected Press
- In the footsteps of Ken Loach's heirs - Telerama
- Homeward Review - The Guardian
- Short film anthology takes Britain’s pulse - The Guardian
- A mosaic of shorts with a powerful charge - The Financial Times
- The short film collection exploring what it means to be British - The Evening Standard
- The Uncertain Kingdom - Little White Lies
- Feature on Country Girl - Women in Film and Hollywood
- 5 to see: Docs at Sundance - Aesthetica
- Episode 24, Best Girl Grip: An Interview with Ellen Evans - Best Girl Grip
- Ellen Evans on Finding the Right Character - It’s Nice That
- £200k UK shorts project The Uncertain Kingdom unveils titles - Screen Daily
- Insights: Ellen Evans on Lillith and Life in Miniature - Open City Docs
- Forget Tiny Houses—Try Miniature Sculptures - The Atlantic
- Small world: The miniature model-makers who are hugely creative - BBC Arts
- Life Immortalised - Colossal
- Festival Highlight: Everything the Light Touches - Film Comment
- Everything the Light Touches: A Profound and Moving Portrait - Film Inquiry