Phyllis Ellis

Phyllis Ellis has worked in film and television for more than 20 years as an actor director producer and writer creating critically acclaimed and awardwinning films and television across genres She recently finished the beautiful and acclaimed feature documentary emPainted Country In Search of the Group of Sevenem for TVO with White Pine Pictures In 2013 the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television awarded her the Donald Brittain Award for Best SocialPolitical Documentary for emAbout Herem a featurelength documentary she wrote directed and produced chronicling the lives of five women struggling with breast cancer She was nominated for a 2006 Gemini for Best Direction Lifestyle Series for emMade to Orderem and won a 2007 Gemini nomination for Best Director in a Documentary series for emCrystal Living the Dreamem She also cocreated and directed the Geminiwinning comedies emThe Wilkinsonsem and emThree Chords from the Truthem Before all this Ellis was an athlete and competed in field hockey for Canada at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games Her 2019 documentary Toxic Beauty had its World Premiere at that years Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival We list her credits as a Director firstbrbrAlso see a hrefhttpswwwnorthernstarscathrowbackwednesdayThrow Back WednesdayaAlso see a hrefhttpswwwnorthernstarscanewsmorecdnfilmsathotdocsMore CDN Films at Hot Docs 2022abr