• PRI'S The World

    “Former residents of this Washington DC neighborhood look to preserve its history.”

  • Beyond The Lens

    “Ellie Walton talks about the rarely heard of events that unfolded in Washington, D.C.'s Mount Pleasant neighborhood in May 1991 and how they inspired her to share the stories of the community's Memory Keepers in her documentary, La Manplesa: An Uprising Remembered.”

  • The Washington Post

    “Ellie Walton, documentary filmmaker and DC native, turns a wide lens on her city. “

  • Platform Magazine

    “Brave Girls explores the urgent questions about the empowerment of women in the developing world from the perspective of the women living those questions and facing the consequences of answering them.”

  • Daily Good

    “A decade ago South Asian Hip Hop artists collaborated on a song called Ode to Women. Ten years later they reunited along with gifted filmmaker, Ellie Walton, to bring it to life through a powerful music video.”

  • The Latinx Project

    “We Were There”: The Community Fires Back in La Manplesa: An Uprising Remembered

“Ellie Walton has a passion for documenting the stories of ordinary Washingtonians, and for encouraging people to realize they have the power to do the same.”

— Carla Broyles, The Washington Post