Profile Details
- Country: Canada
- Province/State: Ontario
- City: Toronto
- How do you Identify?: Cis Gender Black Gay Male
- Age: 22
- Field of Work: Fiction/Scripted and Documentary
- Union: Non-Union
- Interested In: TV Writing Room, Directing TV For Hire, Directing Film/Digital for Hire, Developing my own Film/TV/Digital Material, For-Hire Work, and Shadowing
- Favourite Movies: Weekend, The Last Black Man in San Francisco & Parasite
- Favourite TV Shows: Drama: Insecure, Pose, Watchmen | Comedy: Shameless, Dear White People, Barry, Brooklyn Nine-Nine | Animation: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Steven Universe, Voltron: Legendary Defender
- Pitch a Project: When exposed to a virus meant to kill them and their entire race, three Black teenagers are given extraordinary abilities. With months to live, it’s up to them to find out where these powers came from and a way to save their community before it’s too late
- Contact Information: malachi@malachiellis.com
- Link: http://www.malachiellis.com/
Bio
Malachi Ellis is a talented and multidisciplinary content creator. He is a recent graduate of both Ryerson University’s Media Production Program and OYA Media Group’s Black Youth! Pathway 2 Industry Program.
Malachi has experience both professionally volunteering as a Production Assistant on several Canadian Film Centre shoots, as well as personal projects, such as The Hero’s Artist, a superhero thesis film for which he wrote, produced and directed. Malachi currently works as a Producers’ Assistant at OYA Media Group.
As a gay black cis-gendered man, Malachi seeks to produce fictional content that inspires others and pushes for the representation of marginalized individuals.