Current Commissions & Projects

Welcome to Brown Rabbit Studios Inc - we are a boutique BIPOC production company that brings together award-winning Black and BIPOC creators, and our allies, to create incredible video and animated works for tv, arts, lifestyle and children’s content.

We also enjoy taking on new video commissions from behind the scenes videos, dance film docs, commercial content, music videos and 2D animated short film works.

2022 - 2024 Projects.

MUSIC VIDEO by Milan Andre Boronell - featuring Maika Harper

BIRTHING WHILE BLACK Ancestral Midwives - Educational Video Series

CBC BOOK TRAILER Life in the City of Dirty Water - Animation

BROWN GIRL OUTDOOR WORLD & ARCTERYX Clothing Launch Video & Behind the Scenes Video & Photography

CBC Reads : Hand Drawn & Rotoscoped Book Trailer

Featuring LIFE IN THE CITY OF DIRTY WATER by Clayton Thomas Muller.

Dance Film & Art Doc Commissions.

LUZ Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance

KRUMP Dance Immersion featured on PBS Soal

ART OF PEACE Gerry Trentham, Sylvia Bouchard & Diane Robert’s

WHY NOT THEATRE Toronto

WMWX3 Montreal

VIVINE SCARLETT Awards Tribute Video

In Development.

  • Catch! Preschool Series

    Live Action / Animated

    Early Development

  • Black Squirrel Ninjas

    New Animated Feature

    Early Development

  • New Immersive Photo Video Project

    Supported by the Foundation of Steven Spielberg & Kate Capshaw

    Opening Fall 2025

  • Sga & Wulver : Holiday Special

    Scotland - Canada Co-Production

    Animated Movie by Bonnie & Braw & Brown Rabbit Studios

Kiki & Kwame Goes into Third Phase of Development with CBC KIDS!

  • We love to draw..

Meet Ella!

Executive Producer - Director - Multi-Media Artist

Owner of Brown Rabbit Studios

ELLA COOPER is an award winning director / producer, artist, speaker, and writer based in Toronto and Montreal who has been working in the arts, film and cultural sector for over 20 years.

Ella is founder of Black Women Film! Canada a not for profit supporting the development of Black women in film and media.

She started Brown Rabbit Studios in 2020, a new BIPOC production company focused on content creation for tv, arts and children programming with a new animation in development with CBC Kids & Karen Chapman. She is currently a writer/director for a new TVO Kids show ‘Sunny’s Quest,’ and was nominated for a 2023 & 2024 Canadian Screen award for this work. She also recently received support for a new interactive photo video from Steven Spielberg due to come out in museums in 2025.

Ella won the Tiffany’s Hometown Hero Award and was nominated for the 2019 TAC Mayor's Arts Award for cultural leadership and featured as one of 33 Black Canadians Making Change Now in Chatelaine magazine. Her photo series ‘Witness’ was just selected as 2020 Editors Pick in Canadian Art Magazine and her documentary, dance and video installation works have been presented in galleries, public spaces and film festivals in Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Calgary, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Amsterdam and Berlin. She was an artist in residence at the Banff Centre, Picture Berlin and is supported by the Ontario, Toronto & Canada Arts Councils.

Ella is also holds a Masters of Education and known for her speaking, facilitation, teaching and transformative leadership programs created for diverse communities internationally and across Canada.

Follow Her @ellacoopercreates | EllaCooper.ca