VIDEO PRODUCER/EDITOR, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Ellie has been working most recently as a fixed term video producer and editor for Human Rights Watch, covering stories on global human rights violations, from the Palestine-Israel conflict to border killings on the Saudi Arabian border and first-person narratives on the Windrush compensation scheme. Ellie has also worked on creating social products for breaking news stories.
See the feature films and social media products of these stories below.
This is the story of two Palestinian residents, Ghassan and Sara, who sought to escape the violence in Gaza but were trapped in the hostilities, and their lives irreversibly changed. Human Rights Watch article.
“Displacement feels like your soul is being torn from your body.”
On October 13, 2023, Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon killed Issam Abdullah, a Reuters journalist. The attack injured six other journalists from Reuters, Agence France-Presse (AFP), and Al Jazeera. Human Rights Watch article.
"I don't know what justice looks like. We lost someone and he's not coming back."
Saudi border guards have killed at least hundreds of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers who tried to cross the Yemen-Saudi border between March 2022 and June 2023. Human Rights Watch article.
“They fired on us like rain."
Watch the story of the Gardi Sugdub community, which is looking to relocate to the mainland due to rising sea levels and overcrowding. Human Rights Watch article.
“Climate change is intensifying every year”.
Watch Thomas Tobierre and his daughter Charlottes story tell their story of how the Windrush Compensation scheme has failed them and caused devastation to their family. Human Rights Watch article.
"The Compensation Scheme was just running parallel and almost overtaking my mums battle with cancer."
On the morning of October 7, 2023, heavily armed men breached the fences separating Israel and Gaza and entered southern Israel. At least 1,400 people were killed, many of them civilians, including children, according to Israeli officials. Human Rights Watch article.