John Wellington Ennis is an American filmmaker, activist, and blogger from Los Angeles. In 2004, he directed a film starring Amy Poehler and the Upright Citizens Brigade titled Wild Girls Gone. He is the co-founder of Video the Vote, a non-partisan group interested in documenting problems at U.S. polls. Ennis and Video the Vote co-created Free for All, a 2008 documentary about fraud in U.S. elections. He is also the founder of Shoot First, Inc., a film production company. His latest film is Pay 2 Play: Democracy’s High Stakes, a feature length documentary about the corrupting influence of money in our political system, starring Robert Reich, Lawrence Lessig, John Nichols, Marianne Williamson and more…
Ennis has produced and developed reality television for FremantleMedia, RDF Media, and Nash Entertainment, and his work has been seen on NBC, Fox, CBS, ABC, TLC, BBC, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. Ennis’s New York City Toolz of the New School was a cult hit in the late 1990s. Ennis has produced many musical documentaries, with many of today’s artists, such as Weezer, Linkin Park, Fall Out Boy, Fergie, John Mayer, Jane’s Addiction, Ne-Yo, Sarah McLachlan, Jack Johnson, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Audioslave and others.
Where Else But The Streets: A Street Art Dossier is the companion book to Ennis’ critically acclaimed 2014 documentary Pay 2 Play.
