Ellen Stanistreet is a designer and costume professional in film, tv and theatre, based in Naarm.

Ellen has a Bachelor of Design (Fashion) and a Master of Fine Arts (Design for Performance) from NIDA. She has worked on tv series and films, dance and musical productions, as well as running a bespoke fashion business.

Her first feature film as costume designer is award-winning queer drama the Greenhouse, now streaming on Netflix. It premiered at the British Film Institute’s FLARE festival, and has screened at over 20 film festivals across the globe. It won the ADG award for Best Director (Thomas Wilson-White) and the Best Australian Feature at MQFF.

Ellen’s second feature as designer is Moja Vesna which premiered at 72nd Berlin Film Festival, the only Australian film in this year’s selection.

Her third feature as designer is The Rooster, starring Hugo Weaving and Phoenix Raei. Written and directed by Mark Leonard Winter and produced by Geraldine Hakewell and Mahveen Shahraki, it is an exploration on grief, isolation and masculinity in modern Australia. It premiered at 2023 MIFF and was shortlisted in the top five for audience choice, nad has won numrous awards around the Australian fim festival circuit. It had a theatrical release in Feb 2024.

Ellen has been nominated for an AACTA award for Best Costume Design in Film 2024 - for her design of The Rooster.

She has been named in 2021 Inside Film Ones to Watch for costume design, and nominated for the Broadway World Award for Best Costume Design in a Play, for Home Invasion (2018).

ellen.stanistreet@gmail.com

Ellen respectfully acknowledges the peoples of the Kulin Nation - past, present and emerging - on whose land she gratefully lives and works.