Whitney Ellis was born in Dallas, Texas on September 7, 1984. At a very young age she discovered her affinity for the visual arts when she picked up her father's Pentax camera.

At age 22, she packed up her bags and moved to Hollywood supporting herself in L.A by working odd temp jobs and becoming a TV extra. It is through her pigeonholed experience of being cast as a "no-name" female character Whitney realized she wanted to be apart of the big picture aka the mise-en-scène and to help give females a voice in the industry.

At the University of Colorado at Boulder, Whitney fell in love with filmmaking when she saw "Bicycle Thieves" in her Film Studies class. It was her "ah ha" moment. She completed a BA in Film Studies and a BFA in Film & Video Production along with winning the Virgil Grillo award for student filmmaking. She finished her higher education at Yale University summer session, studying screenwriting and crime television.

Most recently, Whitney has worked on the ground breaking A&E cable docu-series "60 Days In" and just completed her first short film "The Transition of Juan Romero"

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Whitney Ellis

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