Ellie Foumbi

Director and Screenwriter

New York City, New York

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About Ellie

Ellie Foumbi is an actor/writer/director born in Cameroon, West Africa. She holds an MFA from Columbia University’s School of the Arts in Directing. Her award-winning short film, “Zenith”, was a 44th Student Academy Awards Semifinalist and a 2018 African Movie Academy Awards Nominee in the Best Short Film category. She was invited to participate in New York Film Festival’s 2018 Artist Academy. Her films have been selected to screen at several international film festivals, including Santa Barbara International, Sidewalk, BOGO Shorts, Champs-Élysées and Zanzibar International Film Festival, among others. Her producing credits include the Student BAFTA Award Winner and Gold Student Academy Award-Winning short film, “Nocturne in Black.” She’s the recipient of the Jesse Thompkins III Award in Screenwriting, the IFP Marcie Bloom Fellowship and is a Film Independent Screenwriting Lab Fellow.

Gender:
Female

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Suicide by Sunlight (2018)
Film Actress
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth (2018)
Film Actress
No Traveler Returns (2018)
Film Writer
The Liberation of Harold Kvist (2018)
Film Producer
Zenith (2017)
Film Actress
Last Day in Paradise (2017)
Film Writer
The Healer (2016)
Film Actress
Afrimericans (2016)
Film Actress
How to Tell You're a Douchebag (2016)
Film Actress
Avalanche (2016)
Film Writer
Nocturne in Black (2016)
Film Producer
Uniform (2015)
Film Director
Clean (2015)
Film Production manager
Inheritors (2013)
Film Actress
A Guy Named Rick (2013)
Film Actress
Mother of George (2013)
Film Actress
Say Grace Before Drowning (2010)
Film Actress
Pro-Black Sheep (2009)
Film Actress

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Awards

Best Performance (TIDE Film Festival / Zenith)
(2018)
Audience Award (Pride Film Festival / Uniform)
(2018)
Best LGBT Short (Film Independent Awards / Uniform)
(2018)
Best Student Director (Black Star International FF / Zenith)
(2017)
2nd Place - Best Short Film (Mediterranean Film Festival Cannes / Last Day in Paradise)
(2017)
IFP Audience Award (Columbia University Film Festival / Zenith)
(2017)
Caucus Gold Circle Award for Best Producer (Caucus Foundation / Nocturne in Black)
(2016)
Grand Jury for Best Short Script (Rhode Island International Film Festival / Zenith)
(2016)

Education

Columbia University in the City of New York
(2013-2017)
La Femis
(2016-2016)