filmmaker
Ella Greenwood
British Filmmaker
Founder of Broken Flames Productions
Mental health advocate
Ella Greenwood is a British filmmaker whose work has screened at BAFTA and Oscar accredited festivals and has been featured by the likes of Grazia, Refinery29, Variety, Deadline and Huffington Post. She was selected as a Forbes 30 Under 30 Honouree at the age of 19 and was named Creative Pioneer of the year at the 2021 Darkus Magazine Awards. Ella is a UN Women UK delegate to the United Nations Commission on the status of women and a recent Women of the Future Award winner.
She is the founder of London-based Broken Flames Productions and is an ambassador for leading teenage mental health charity stem4.
Her films focus on mental health and have been partnered with charities such as HUMEN and PAPYRUS. Recent projects include ‘Self-Charm’ starring BAFTA winner Bukky Bakray and ‘Smudged Smile’ starring Mia Mckenna-Bruce. She hopes to change the representation of mental health in the media and to support emerging creatives. Her work is beginning to blend her work on mental health with raising awareness of the climate crisis and climate anxiety.