Kielan Ellis is a writer, producer, director, and award winning editor from Toronto, Canada.
He a co-founder of 512RED, an independent film production company.
He has directed two feature films and produced over twenty shorts, including several that have screened at festivals including the Ottawa International Animation Festival and TIFF Short Cuts.
Most recently he edited Frida in the Sky, an animated short film by Dani Sadun which was shortlisted for the Student Academy Awards.
He is currently in pre-production on his new feature film: Spanish Leather
When young and carefree stoner, Julien, loses his prized lighter on a drunken night out, he is forced to embark on an odyssey through Toronto to recover it in time to make it to dinner with his estranged mother.
After experiencing the worst day of their lives, roommates Will and Ben - one a poorly paid law-clerk and the other a failing stand-up comedian - wake up to find a functional time machine on their coffee table.
With their relationship on the rocks, David and Emily move to Halifax to catch a break from the pandemic and their monotonous routine. Upon meeting Emily's best friend Delilah and her local friend Meg, the already shaky groundwork of their relationship starts to fracture.