Ellen Eliasoph
- Producer
- Additional Crew
- Writer
Ellen R. Eliasoph is a veteran film executive and producer who has spent the last 30 years building bridges among Greater China's film industry, Hollywood and the global film market. She became the first Hollywood executive to be based in China when she established Warner Bros.' Beijing office in 1993 and imported The Fugitive to China as the first Hollywood import film. During her long tenure as Managing Director, Warner Bros. Pictures China, Eliasoph arranged and managed the China releases of the Matrix and Harry Potter series and other Warner Bros. blockbusters, and served as WB's studio production executive on its Chinese films and co-productions, including Johnnie To's Turn Left, Turn Right; The Painted Veil, which starred Edward Norton and Naomi Watts; , Benny Chan's Connected, starring Louis Koo, and Peter Chan's The Warlords, which starred Jet Li, Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro.
In 2011, Eliasoph established Village Roadshow Pictures Asia with offices in Hong Kong and Beijing, and over the subsequent six years led the company's production of a slate of films that garnered both commercial and critical success, including Stephen Chow's Journey to the West, Leste Chen's Say Yes! and Larry Yang's award-winning Mountain Cry. In 2017, she organized the formation of Perfect Village Entertainment, a pioneering joint venture between Perfect World, one of China's leading filmed entertainment and game production companies, and Village Roadshow. As Perfect Village's CEO and lead producer, she produced a slate of films directed by and featuring both upcoming and established Greater China talent, including the Jackie Chan action comedy Bleeding Steel (2015) and Zhang Yimou's Shadow (2018), which earned global critical acclaim and numerous awards.
Eliasoph registered her independent production company Starry Dome Productions, Inc. in 2021 and commenced development of a slate of film projects that, while of various genres, tell stories that discover and strengthen the convergence of Asian and Western societies, the human and the non-human and differing time/space dimensions: stories that reach back to our ancestors and forward to embrace future generations, and explore the wonders of collective consciousness. Her most recent production, Neither Donkey Nor Horse (2024), won numerous awards, including a Student Oscar and Student DGA Award.
Ms. Eliasoph is a member of AMPAS, the Producers Guild of America and the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts, and a Trustee of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art. A summa cum laude graduate of Yale College and graduate of Yale Law School, she is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and Japanese. She first went to Mainland China as a member of the initial group of American students to study in China following normalization of U.S./China diplomatic relations. Long committed to the cause of cross-cultural cooperation between the U.S. and China, Ms. Eliasoph was one of the co-founders and producers of the U.S.A. Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.
In 2011, Eliasoph established Village Roadshow Pictures Asia with offices in Hong Kong and Beijing, and over the subsequent six years led the company's production of a slate of films that garnered both commercial and critical success, including Stephen Chow's Journey to the West, Leste Chen's Say Yes! and Larry Yang's award-winning Mountain Cry. In 2017, she organized the formation of Perfect Village Entertainment, a pioneering joint venture between Perfect World, one of China's leading filmed entertainment and game production companies, and Village Roadshow. As Perfect Village's CEO and lead producer, she produced a slate of films directed by and featuring both upcoming and established Greater China talent, including the Jackie Chan action comedy Bleeding Steel (2015) and Zhang Yimou's Shadow (2018), which earned global critical acclaim and numerous awards.
Eliasoph registered her independent production company Starry Dome Productions, Inc. in 2021 and commenced development of a slate of film projects that, while of various genres, tell stories that discover and strengthen the convergence of Asian and Western societies, the human and the non-human and differing time/space dimensions: stories that reach back to our ancestors and forward to embrace future generations, and explore the wonders of collective consciousness. Her most recent production, Neither Donkey Nor Horse (2024), won numerous awards, including a Student Oscar and Student DGA Award.
Ms. Eliasoph is a member of AMPAS, the Producers Guild of America and the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts, and a Trustee of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art. A summa cum laude graduate of Yale College and graduate of Yale Law School, she is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and Japanese. She first went to Mainland China as a member of the initial group of American students to study in China following normalization of U.S./China diplomatic relations. Long committed to the cause of cross-cultural cooperation between the U.S. and China, Ms. Eliasoph was one of the co-founders and producers of the U.S.A. Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.
