ELLA TOUNESSI Film Director / Digital Communication Consultant Film Director /
Digital Communication
Consultant

Discovering visual narratives in a modern medium

I am a visual communication consultant/filmmaker with more than 15 years of expertise in audiovisual and visual strategy for the development and production of visual content.

From a young age and through my life journey, I have always been sensitive to the challenges of sustainable, human, social and inclusive development.

Working on the impact of the image in its sensitivity, its beauty and the intellectual reflection is a passion for me, to make « Turnkey » visual contents from the script to their creative and efficient broadcast.

My objective, as a visual person, is to raise awareness and advocacy, to move, to explain, to bring innovations in view of addressing development challenges.

Several international organizations such as the UNDP, the FAO, the African Development Bank UNAIDS, UNHCR, WFP, UNIFEM have trusted me to produce documentaries on several themes related to their mandates. In this context, I have produced 10 « turnkey » visual projects from the writing, production, post-production and broadcasting phase, on themes related to climate change, rural development, agriculture , rural finance and migrant remittances.

I conceive each project, like a dive into a universe that I transcribe by original choices of narration and story telling. In this respect, digital communication is I believe one of  the privileged means of broadening and enriching the field of creation.

Education

2001-2003 BA Degree
Sorbonne, Paris Film theory and communication
2004-2006 BA Degree
New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Film & TV
2007-2008 MA Degree
European Center of Film Production Film producing and communicaton
2020-2022 MA Degree
Comincia Digital communication & Marketing

Expertise

Images for development / USAID award best documentary year 2015
Fiction, documentary Screen-writing & Directing
Fashion films emotional narratives
Corporate digital communication

“My creativity at heart and my ethic in mind”