Richie Ellis is a New York–based director working across film, music videos, and commercials. He approaches all of it the same way - without softening the work to make it easier to read. His films hold on people longer than expected, letting behavior play out until something real breaks through.

Trained as a writer, he builds scenes where meaning isn’t handed to you. People decide what they’re seeing before they understand it - and then they live with it. That tension sits in the work. It doesn’t resolve just because you want it to.

Across formats, he applies the same discipline. No shortcuts. No surface. What you feel comes before what you understand - and it lingers.

The work doesn’t try to win you over. It stays with you.

email: richie.ellis@gmail.com‍ ‍

cell : +1 646 469 2379