Gena Ellis
ROSA AND THE BLACK TULIP (screenplay)
London International Filmmakers Festival, WINNER 2018
TinselTown Productions Screenwriting Contest, Runner Up 2017
Los Angeles Lift-Off Film Festival, 2016
OUT OF SIGHT (radio drama)
BBC 25th International Radio Playwriting Competition, Highly Commended, 2016 (top 14 of over 1,000))
ANGELA'S DECISION (screenplay)
FilmMakers’ magazine American Gem Top 25 Winner
Los Angeles Lift-Off Film Festival, Official Selection
Gold Remi Award, Adaptation, Worldfest-Houston International Film Fest
Angela’s Decision featured in SCREENTALK magazine
ANGELA'S DECISION (film)
Gold Remi Award, Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival 2009
Best of Show Ron Tibbett Award, Tupelo Film Festival 2007
Phoenix Film Festival, Best World Cinema 2007.
Garden State Film Festival, Asbury Park, Best Film Music Finalist 2007
George Lindsey Film Festival, 2nd Place, Best Feature 2007
Niche Music and Film Festival, Special Invitation, Portland 2007
Bennie Kent Film Festival, OK, First Place 2007
Australian Cinematopraphers Society Gold ACE Award 2006
Flying Monkey Arts Center, Screening 2006
Adelaide, AUS, Screening 2006
University of Oklahoma, Screening/Seminar 2007
Arts Center, Tupelo, Screening 2008
Flying Monkey Arts Center, AL Screening/Workshop 2008
Webster University, St. Louis, Screening 2009
Scripts
Moondance Film Festival (2x)
OWFI in OKC Second Place
Austin Film Festival Second Round (2x)
Houston Writers’ League Finalist
Frontiers in Writing, Amarillo, Finalist
Selected for Southernartistry.org
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CRICK IN THE HOLLER (film) 2016-2018
2017 Columbia MFA Thesis & Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Short Production Grant Film
OFFICIAL SELECTION:
2018 Tupelo Film Festival, MS (WINNER, Best Student Short)
2018 Green Mountain Film Festival, VT
2018 Beloit International Film Festival, WI
2017 Woodstock Film Festival (NOMINEE: Best Student Short)
2017 Citizen Jane Film Festival, Columbia, MO
2017 Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC
2017 Lone Star Film Festival, Ft. Worth, TX (WINNER: Best Student Short)
2016 Screencraft Short Film Production Fund Semifinalist
ANOMALIES (screenplay) 2015
Quarterfinalist, The Academy Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting
Quarterfinalist, CineStory Retreat and Fellowship
SEVEN STORY SYCAMORE (film)
Eighth Columbia Gorge International Film Festival 2015
Starring our own wonderfully talented Emerson Nosek and the immeasurably talented Allie Gallerani (who also starred in The Ballad of Barbara Allen).
WAR IS KIND (film)
Studio 22 and Senior Directing Premieres Spring 2012
Northwestern University Senior Directing Project 2011-12
NU Women's Filmmaker Alliance NUWFA Grant 2011
2012 NITESKOOL MUSIC VIDEO
Chicago International Movie and Music Festival- CIMMfest 2013
Tupelo Film Festival 2013
George Lindsey UNA Film Festival 2013
Studio 22 Premiere 2012
THE BALLAD OF BARBARA ALLEN
The NextFrame Film Festival online competition 2012
Premiere, Northwestern University Spring 2012
Northwestern's Independent Study/Dean's Advisory Council Grant 2011
JANE AND GOLDIE
White Sands Film Festival, Las Cruces, New Mexico 2011
Studio 22 Premiere 2011
Northwestern's Studio 22 $1,000 Grant - Fall 2010
JESSAMINE
Studio 22 Premiere 2009
Northwestern's Studio 22 Freshman Grant - Winter 2009
EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS SAMPLES
Live Read, Female Eye Film Festival, Toronto
Adaptation, 12th and 13th Annual Tupelo Film Festival
EXTRA, EXTRA...
Gena's Background Acting
TV
Nashville ABC, CMT
Shameless Showtime
Chicago Fire NBC's Clip (5 episodes)
Betrayal ABC, director Patty Jenkins' episode
Underemployed Clip MTV
Film
Dhoom 3 Yash Raj Bollywood film
"Fallin' For You" Music Video
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Mystic Swirl Short film
Commercial
Wake Up Adidas, The Return of Derrick Rose