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Ella Jones

Ella Jones

Directing

Biography

Ella is an award-winning director from London. Blending humor and wit with realism and incisive social commentary, her lush visual style and intoxicating storytelling create an immersive viewing experience that is not soon forgotten. A graduate from Cambridge University, Ella began her career as a professional actress and has also worked as a Script Editor on short films and series, including Hanna, David Farr’s episodic series for Amazon. She was mentored by BAFTA-winning director Becky Martin (Veep, Succession) through BFI Network's BAFTA Crew scheme, and has also taken part in BFI Network@LFF and Berlinale Talents. Her recent television work includes the final block of HBO's upcoming comedy-horror series The Baby, Series Two of Back to Life for BBC/Showtime and Pandemonium for BBC1. Ella won Best Comedy Director at the Royal Television Society Craft Awards for Series Two of BBC3 Comedy series Enterprice and was nominated again the following year for her work on Back to Life. Her latest series SWEETPEA, a new 8x1hr comedy-drama which she directed and produced for Sky (and picked up by STARZ) premieres October 10. Ella's short films have played at festivals internationally including Aesthetica, Phoenix, LOCO, Cambridge and Encounters.

Known For

Midsomer Murders
7.5

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

Midsomer Murders

1997
Silent Witness
7.5

A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.

Silent Witness

1996
Peak Practice
6.5

Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.

Peak Practice

1993
Sweetpea
7.5

Rhiannon Lewis doesn't make much of an impression - people walk past her in the street without a second glance. That is until she is pushed over the edge and loses control. Rhiannon's life transforms, but can she keep her killer secret?

Sweetpea

2024
Urban Gothic
4.8

Urban Gothic was a horror based series of short stories shown on Channel 5 running for two series between May 2000 and December 2001. Filmed on a low budget and broadcast in a later time-slot, it nonetheless acquired a following. It has also since been repeated on the Horror Channel. Set around London there is an underlying story thread that only becomes clear in the last episodes of each series. Each episode was different in style from the others, running the gamut of documentary-style independent film to spoof, to slick dramas similar in style to The Outer Limits or The Twilight Zone.

Urban Gothic

2000
Me Without You
6.5

During a long, hot summer in seventies London, young neighbors Holly and Marina make a childhood pact to be friends forever. For Marina, troubled, fiercely independent, determined to try everything, Holly stays the only constant in a life of divorcing parents, experimental drugs and fashionable self-destruction. But for Holly, a friendship that has never been equal gradually starts to feel like a trap.

Me Without You

2001
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Based on the Wendy Wunder novel of the same name, 'The Probability of Miracles' follows Campbell “Cam” Cooper, an irreverent cynic, who has been suffering from neuroblastoma since she was 8 years old. After receiving an “expiration date” from her doctor, Cam’s mother uproots their family to a town called Promise in the hope that a miracle may save Cam’s life. While Cam doesn’t believe in magic or miracles, she goes along for the ride and plans to try to do some normal teenage hijinks with her final summer on earth…but life and Promise have something very different in mind for her.

The Probability of Miracles

Sarah Chong Is Going to Kill Herself
N/A

Sarah Chong Is Going To Kill Herself is a surreal workplace fantasy in which a maltreated receptionist decides to take matters into her own hands. Hands which may well contain grenades.

Sarah Chong Is Going to Kill Herself

2016
Behind the Filter
N/A

This isn't how Ruby imagined her life - single, unemployed, IBS, the wrong side of 25 and living at home with her parents. The time has come for her to make her mark - by making a podcast.

Behind the Filter

2020
Miss Fortunate
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If luck is a lady, grief is a bitch. A young woman loses her mother and finds herself.

Miss Fortunate

2021
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A re-imagining of the classic Brothers Grimm Tale. Hansel and Gretel are brother and sister, wandering through a cold, bleak landscape in a surreal and uncertain world. With the last of their food gone, they stumble across a beautiful house decorated with flowers and sweets, and a freshly baked pie cooling on the window outside. A friendly, rosy-cheeked lady invites them inside and treats them to the luxurious spread she has prepared. But in the cold light of the next morning, Hansel's absence at breakfast suggests to Gretel that the old woman's love of baking may mask a far more sinister obsession than she ever imagined, and she must save her brother before it is too late...

Hansel and Gretel

2013
Spoonface Steinberg
8.0

Television film version of Lee Hall's award-winning radio play. Spoonface is seven years old, Jewish, autistic - and terminally ill with cancer. As she tries to come to terms with the meaning of life and death, she draws inspiration from the prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps who died with dignity and their spirit unbowed.

Spoonface Steinberg

1998
Petra
N/A

When a mysterious young woman turns up on Ruth's doorstep, she's blindsided by her feelings for her. Little does she know why she's there and just who she has fallen for.

Petra

2021
International Men's Day
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In a parallel world where women rule the roost and 'Masculists' are written off as angry men burning boxers, a group of downtrodden men are convinced that the only way to rid themselves of their insecurities is to plot a sex strike against their wives.

International Men's Day

2014
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A re-imagining of the classic Hans Christian Anderson tale. In straight suburbia, in a world comprised entirely of lines and squares, a young boy's love of bright colours and strange fashions only exasperates his family and alienates him from his peers. When even his parents begin to question his provenance, the boy leaves home and begins a magical adventure, meeting a series of characters who not only transform his appearance but helps him to see who he really is.

The Ugly Duckling

2013
The Orgy
4.2

A heartbroken guy throws caution to the wind and goes to an orgy.

The Orgy

2018
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A re-imagining of the classic Brothers Grimm Tale. A tyrannical mother contracts a soldier to uncover the mystery behind her seven daughters' shoes; every night she locks her daughters in their room but every morning she finds their shoes have been completely worn through. Unbeknownst to the Princesses, the Soldier follows them on their magical journey into the night and discovers their secret...

The Seven Dancing Princesses

2013
Foot in Mouth
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When two pampered 'It Girls' ignorantly abuse and offend a Chinese pedicurist, she cleverly plots a fitting revenge.

Foot in Mouth

2016