Amberly Alene Ellis

Amberly Alene Ellis

FLIM FOR THE PEOPLE (Regla Soul)

Photographer— 2017-2019, 2022

Amberly Alene Ellis is a documentary filmmaker and photographer born in Baltimore, living in Havana, Cuba. As the director and producer of Film for the People, her films examine issues of race, gender, health and social justice in Latin America and the Caribbean. She is a graduate of University of Maryland’s School of Communications and holds an MFA in Film from American University. In 2018 she became a co-founder of ReglaSOUL, a community initiative to provide holistic wellness resources to improve the health and well-being of the Afro descendant population in the borough of Regla in Havana, Cuba. She has won multiple awards for her documentaries and music videos she’s directed. She currently has some of her documentary photography work in the community of Regla on exhibit at The Clemente Soto Vélezama Cultural & Educational Center in New York.