Born in the UK, Juliet Ellis is a filmmaker, visual artist and theatre maker, working across performance, installation, film and photography, and splitting her time between New York and the UK. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally. Her artistic vision is driven by a creative and spiritual need to discover new aesthetic approaches, expand her artistic vocabulary and push at the boundaries of what it means to make work.

Her award-winning long-form artist film,RUBY marked a breakthrough in her long-form moving-image work, opening a pathway into cinematic dream-space.

It won Best Drama at the Berlin Independent Film Festival and the Fellini Award for Best Art Direction at the Austin Arthouse Film Festival, with further selections at London Film Week, the International New York Film Festival and the European Cinematography Awards. Juliet is an alumna of both the prestigious Binger Lab and the Toronto Talent Lab.

In 2023 she completed a three-month artist residency at HIAP Helsinki, exploring digital imagery and experimental photography. Her commissions  include:
– a short film created for Sheffield DocFest’s Alternate Realities programme, using digital technologies to experiment with non-fiction and push storytelling into new imaginative territories
– One Woman, a digital performance work for Unlimited Festival at the Southbank Centre and HOME Manchester
– Somewhere, a short film commissioned by Opera North and broadcast on Sky Arts

In summer of 2025, Juliet presented a new immersive and dreamlike film/sound and live installation, A Symphony of Flesh and Bones, at Manchester International Festival (MIF25). Working with sound, movement and the instability of image, she invited the audience into a space where reality shifts — a place of dissolution, rebirth and transfiguration. The piece will make its North American premier at Perelman Performing Arts Center in New York City who also co commissioned the project. 

Writer, Director. Ruby. Feature Film.

Director. Bit By Bit. Script Development.  
BFI Development Fund. Creative England Development Fund

Director. Blue. Short Film.

DIRECTOR. Bro9. Short Film.
Commissioned by the uk film council AND b3 media. 
LIFF. Sithengi. Brit Spotting. Obenhausen. IFCT. Encounters. TIFF. British Councils Best Short Films Compilations. 

Director. Hinterland. Music Promo.
Lonelady for Warp Records

Director. Bunkerpop. Music Promo. 
Lonelady for Warp Records
Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2015

Director. Amsterdam. Theater Production. 
Podium Mosaiek Amsterdam. Contact Theatre.
International Tour

Director. Somewhere the Shadow. Theater Production.
co-DIRECTOR with john e McGrath. Contact Theatre.

Director. The Blacks. Theater Production. 
Manchester Capitol Theatre

Director. Worlds Apart. Theater Production. 
Commissioned by Red Ladder Theatre Company.
National Tour

Director. Bro 9. Theater Production. 
MEN Winner Best Theatre Design, Best Fringe Performer. Commissioned by the Contact Theatre

Director. The Root of IT. Theater Production. 
New Found Theatre Company. performed at Soho Theatre, London. Commissioned by Arts Council England

Director. Twilight. multi-media production.
co-produced by Contact Theatre and Nitro

Director. Hydroponic. Theater Production 
commissioned by Soho Theatre and Reading Arts

Director. BBC’s young writers programme

Director. Flip The Script. Contact Theatre
supported by the BBC

Director. Flipfest. Contact Theatre
Showcase of emerging writing talent

Director. Autobiography in 5 Chapters. Performance art Piece. Conceived/devised at greenroom Manchester Art Centre. Commissioned by Arts Council England and ArtsAdmin

Director. A Hurricane is Coming. Performance art
Greenroom Manchester Art Centre. National Review of Live Art. 

Director. Under My Skin.
Commissioned by Contact Theatre. National Review of Live Art.

Director. Silent Sermon. Performance Art
Future Factory. a season of interdisciplinary Arts.