Ella Addison Janes knew she was going to be a director at seven years old when, in Los Angeles, California, she directed a parody mermaid film with her friends. Immediately after posting the parody to YouTube, Janes gained 2.8 million views. This attracted attention from Adolescent Content, with whom she began directing commercials for brands such as Crayola and Goldieblox.
In December of 2019 in Oklahoma City, Janes directed her first official directorial debut: "CODE RED".
After premiering in 2020 at the deadCenter Film Festival, Janes began working on her next film, "The First 280 Honest Words of My Life." After starting its festival tour, "The First 280 Honest Words of My Life" was accepted and awarded the Silver Medal at YoungArts and other awards such as the New Talent Award at the National Film Festival for Talented Youth and Best Experimental at the All-American High School Film Festival.
While '280 ' toured, Janes wrote and directed "A Woman and an Envelope" and attended the Manhattan Film Institute to direct "Mr. Baxter."
In 2022, Janes produced two of nitwit entertainment's films, directed by Julian Felix Aaronson: "The External - Internal Monologue of an Interdependent Insomniac" and "Where is Bones?" in which she also did the cinematography.
Janes recently released "Cut Scenes From a Love Story," which she co-directed, co-wrote, and co-shot with Julian Felix Aaronson, the founder of nitwit entertainment.
Janes now is in post-production for yet another film, entitled, "The Derivative Outlook on Love from the Perspectives of Two Sixteen-Year-Olds" about the trials and tribulations of one's first love and has just wrapped production on her newest short film "Happiness in the Palm of Her Hand" inspired by her mother.