Category: TV/Film Stuff

What Boarding School After Dark Really Looks Like Television has been getting the boarding school story wrong for fifty years. I know because I lived in one for ten. Here is what those scripts are missing — and why it matters who tells the story. Girard College, Philadelphia — Lights out, 1987 Ten seconds after…

Hollywood celebrated a landmark year for women on screen in 2024. Black women were largely not in that room. Here is what the numbers actually say — and why the industry’s pipeline excuse is a lie it invented for itself. Read more about it on my Substack: https://erikasellispr.substack.com/p/where-are-the-black-women

In the summer of 1965, the longest sustained civil rights protest in American history happened in Philadelphia — and Hollywood has never told the story. That ends here. Read all about it on my Substack: https://erikasellispr.substack.com/p/cecil-b-moore-mlk-and-the-march-nobody

Hi, wanna laugh-read my short film Kidnappers on my Substack page: https://open.substack.com/pub/erikasellispr/p/kidnappers?r=bm4gz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Before I became a writer, I lived behind a ten foot wall– inside one of the most dramatic untold stories in America. It’s time to tell it. There is a ten-foot stone wall that runs around 43 acres of North Philadelphia. It was built in the 1800s, and for most of the twentieth century, it…

I’ll be honest — Tuner wasn’t on my must-see list. It looked interesting enough, but nothing was pulling me to the theater. That changed the moment I watched the trailer and realized the main character has hyperacusis. For those who don’t know, hyperacusis is a rare disorder that makes normal, everyday sounds feel painfully loud…

Last week I bought a Snoopy hoodie from Macy’s. Simple enough, right? Except it wasn’t simple at all — because I didn’t find it by browsing the women’s section. I found it the way I always find things like it: by doing a broad, general search and hoping something surfaces, because retailers have decided that…

SHORT FICTION · DARK SCI-FI · AVAILABLE ON AMAZON Aunt Winnie By Erika S. Ellis What happens when the woman paid to steal children from their families decides one of them is worth more than the paycheck? Aunt Winnie is a dark, cinematic short story about a twenty-year government black-ops veteran, a gene-splicing operation hiding…

I’ll be transparent: I went into Is God Is knowing almost nothing about it. The preview suggested a revenge film. Two women with a score to settle. That was enough for me. I didn’t read the synopsis. I didn’t know it was adapted from an Obie Award-winning Off-Broadway play. I didn’t know this was writer-director Aleshea Harris’s…