Ella Janes

Ella Addison Janes was born on April 25, 2006. Janes knew she was going to be a director at seven years old when, in Los Angeles, California, she directed a parody mermaid film with her friends. Immediately after posting the parody to YouTube, Janes gained 2.8 million views. This attracted attention from Adolescent Content, with whom she would begin directing commercials for brands such as Crayola and Goldieblox. In December of 2019 in Oklahoma City, Janes directed her first official directorial debut: CODE RED. Janes then opens her production company: ur girlfriend's favorite films, a production company dedicated to empowering women in film and sharing authentic stories that push the limits of film as we know it. After premiering in 2020 at the deadCenter Film Festival, Janes began working on her next film, The First 280 Honest Words of My Life. After starting its festival tour, The First 280 Honest Words of My Life was accepted and awarded the Silver Medal at YoungArts and other awards such as the New Talent Award at the National Film Festival for Talented Youth. While '280 ' tours, Janes writes and directs A Woman and an Envelope and attends the Manhattan Film Institute to direct Mr. Baxter. Janes then went on to be a Producer on two of nitwit entertainment's films, directed by Julian Felix Aaronson: The External - Internal Monologue of an Interdependent Insomniac and Where is Bones?, which she also was Cinematographer on.