Ellen Bruno
Known for
Directing
Biography
Ellen Bruno is an award winning documentary filmmaker based in San Francisco. With a background in international relief work, Ellen’s films have focused on issues at the forefront of human rights. She began her relief efforts in remote Mayan villages in Tabasco, Mexico. She has worked in refugee camps on the Thai-Cambodian border with the International Rescue Committee, in Vietnamese boat camps with The Refugee Section of the American Embassy in Thailand, and as director of the Cambodian Women's Project for the American Friends Service Committee. She has also been a hospice worker for the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco.
Ellen completed a masters degree in documentary film at Stanford...
Best known work
Filmography
2026
Skin of GlassWriter
2021
When We Were BulliesScript Consultant
2017
Filmmakers Unite (FU)Director
2012
2005
2004
Leper Life Beyond StigmaDirector, Producer
1998
1995
Satya: A Prayer for the EnemyDirector
1989





