Ella Saini

she/they
Youth Artist

Ella Saini (she/they) is a Filipino-Indian Canadian director and visual artist based in Scarborough, ON. Her work is an exploration into the nuanced interactions between people, their environments and the social structures that influence their lives. Their latest short film, unhome, screened at 2024 TIFF Next Wave and 2023 F-O-R-M Festival of Recorded Movement, earning recognition for its poignant exploration of displacement and the concept of home in urban life.  Ella continues to use mixed-media and experimental forms of filmmaking within documentary, to tell unique stories that resonate on both personal and collective levels.