Curtis Ellis
- March 10, 2024
- Documentary Filmmaker
Quick Facts
| Date Of Birth | Dec 15, 1979(1979-12-15) |
| Age | 45 |
| Country | United States |
| Horoscope | Sagittarius |
Curtis Ellis Biography
| Birthday | Dec 15 |
| Birth Year | 1979 |
| Place Of Birth | Portland |
Curtis Ellis is one of the most popular and richest Documentary Filmmaker who was born on December 15, 1979 in Portland, Portland, United States. As of June 1, 2023, Curtis has a net worth approximately $5 Million. In 2010, Ellis and five colleagues co-founded the nonprofit organization FoodCorps as a response to the national epidemic of childhood obesity and diet-related disease. The group’s anchor program is an AmeriCorps public service initiative that recruits young leaders for a year of full-time public service fostering healthy school food environments in low-income communities. Working across the country, FoodCorps service members conduct nutrition education, build and tend school gardens, and promote local food in school cafeterias. For the program’s first year, 1229 candidates applied for 50 Service Member positions. Ellis is the organization’s current Executive Director.
Curtis Cleland ‘Curt’ Ellis (born December 15, 1979) is an American filmmaker, social entrepreneur, and advocate for sustainable agriculture and healthy food. He serves as co-founder and Executive Director of the nonprofit organization FoodCorps. He shared a Peabody Award in 2008 for King Corn, which he co-produced and starred in, and in 2011 he won the 17th Annual Heinz Award (with special focus on the environment) with longtime collaborator Ian Cheney for their work in the sustainable food movement.
Ellis co-created and starred in the 2007 Mosaic Films documentary, King Corn. The film, which the Washington Post called “Required viewing for anyone planning to visit a supermarket, fast-food joint, or their own refrigerator,” followed Ellis and his best friend Ian Cheney on a yearlong quest to grow an acre of corn and trace its journey into food. Directed by Ellis’ cousin Aaron Woolf, King Corn featured journalist Michael Pollan and Nixon-era Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz. It received a limited theatrical release, aired nationally on PBS Independent Lens and won a 2008 George Foster Peabody Award.
In the 2009 sequel Big River: A King Corn Companion, directed by Ellis and co- produced by Ellis and Woolf, Ellis and Cheney returned to Iowa to investigate the ecological impacts of chemical-intensive agriculture. The film featured Yale University scientist John Wargo and geneticist Wes Jackson in its examination of the hypoxic dead zone and the link between herbicides and cancer. Environmentalist and author Bill McKibben called Big River “a sharp and clever reminder that nothing ever really goes away, certainly not the soup of chemicals we’re pouring on our fields.” Big River aired on Planet Green in 2010.
Curtis Ellis Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Documentary Filmmaker |
| House | Living in own house. |
Curtis is one of the richest Documentary Filmmaker from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Curtis Ellis 's net worth $5 Million.
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