Ellen Gould Ventura
Biography
Ellen Gould Ventura – This versatile singer-actor has been performing since childhood and making her contribution to the worlds of international music, theatre, television, film, voice over work on adverts and corporate videos.
In 2004 she co-founded the Sephardic Mizrahi World music Quintet, Mashalá! in Barcelona with whom she has toured extensively. The world renowned quintet have been active in the Diaspora Music festival scene appearing in concerts and the media in the Mediterranean, the Balkans and in Cultural Festivals in Paris, Toronto, Vancouver and New York.
Their 1-hour tv documentary, Mashalá, (by Salaam Shalom Productions – India/Canada) was screened around North America, Israel and in Spain.
Most recently, Gould has also appeared on Moviestar´s Co-Production/mini-Series, ¨En el Corredor de la Muerte¨ added to other tv series in North America over the years.
ALTURA 170 | PECHO 92 | CINTURA 74 | CADERA 108 | TALLA ROPA 38-40 | AMERICANA 40 | CALZADO 41 | OJOS Verdes | CABELLO Negro
FILMOGRAPHY
Paula! Principal Independent Short film, Director: Serafina Ventura (Spain)
En el Corredor de la Muerte Actor (1 Episode) Bambu Productions/Film Affinity / Moviestar; (España)
Mashalá! Principal VisionTV-Telefilm Canada-SalaamShalom Prods. (ESP/Can.)
(Docu 45 mins. on E.G.Ventura the group Mashalá)
Film festivals, (Toronto, Vancouver, New York, Ashkelon, Israel)
La Sonora w- Orchestra.Cordes de Mon Singer/Interview guest TV3,La Sonora, Mus Etnologic/Taller de Musics (ESP)
Mashalá! Principal VisionTV-Telefilm Can.-SalaamShalom Prods. (Spain/Can.)
Docu 45 mins. Sobre E.G.Ventura y el grupo Mashalá
Rodasons ; Els Nous Catalans Interview guest Canal 33, TVE (Barcelona, SP)
Rai Barba Interviews Barcelona Television, Barcelona, SP
Final Warning Principal Lalonde and Lalonde/A. Hearden (Toronto, Canadà)
TVO Kids Xmas Broadcast Singer TV Ontario/Adrian Mills (Toronto, Canadà)
Studio 2 w/Steve Paikin Principal TV Ontario/Doug Grant (Toronto, Canadà)
The Fairy Who Didn’t Want To Be
A Fairy Anymore Principal Centre. for Advanced Film Studies/L., Lynd* ( » ) Canadà
Last Wish Dance Instructor ABC Movie of the Week/J. Bleckner (USA)
Kids In The Hall (2 episodes) Actor CBC/Broadway Video (USA/Canadà)
Murmurs Actor Quantum Productions (Canadà)
For The Record Actor CBC/Martin Lavut ( » )
High Notes Choral Singer TV Ontario/Ted Regan ( » )
Liam Principal Paul Fox Productions/P. Fox ( » )
* child actor, secondary parts and tv interviews, Variety TV: 1969 – 1980: CBC, TVO, Global TV, Canada
SELECTED THEATRE: ACTRESS/SINGER/DANCER
Seven Variations of Margarita Weinberg Sister Character – Singer Centre de Cultura de Dones Francesca BonneMaison(SP)
Autorretrato En Azul Singer – Director – Writer Convent Sant Agustí(CSA – GREC 2001 – 2002)(SP)
Self Portrait In Blue Principal Actor – Singer – Writer Music Gallery (Canada)
Fed By Faeries*** Rosa (&singer) Nightwood Theatre /A. Palmer (Canada)
Kumbaya Feaured Singer, Live Variety Ontario Place, Director: Molly Johnson, Toronto (Canada)
Rose Liz/Singer Dancer “LaCreams” Canadian Stage Co./Tomson Highway/Larry Lewis
Get Tight w. John Alcorn Featured Singer Theatre Passe Muraille/ J. Alcorn (Canada)
Liebe Lenya** Young Lotte, Principal Factory Theatre/ Dir. K. Albertson
The Canadian Express Elenka (Ensemble) Theatre In The Rough/A. Harris ( » )
Ain’t Misbehavin’ Charlene (Principal & Ensemble) Bellavista Theatre/S. Jackson (Canada)
Meet The Children Varias – Actriz/Intérprete Theatre In The Rough/A. Harris (Canada)
The Seagull Arkadina U.C. Playhouse/M. Mumford ( » )
Hamlet Machine Various/Dancer U.C. Playhouse/D. Cave/C. May ( » )
Tango Abuela (Principal) U.C. Playhouse/ Colin Taylor/Mroczek
Memories Of My Brother Various (Actor) Harbourfront Studio Theatre, (¨)
* “Genie”(Best Picture, Short Film category, Canada;
** Nomination, Theatre Award, ¨Dora Mavor Moore Awards (Canada), Mid-size Music-Theatre Category
Selected Voice Over: Films, Series, Documentaries (TV, Digital Media, Cinema) :
| Bonaire: Pride of the Dutch Caribbean | Narrator | Jurrien Wiss Productions, |
| The Flying Bear | Various roles | BadiBadi Producer: Spain/Poland |
| Forgotten Christmas | Various roles | FilmAffinity: Spain & Norway |
| Oncology Films | 131 short 3D films | Omega Z Prods. (ESP), Mount Sinai Hospital (USA 2017) |
| Our Oceans | Narrator (Spot and 8 short films) | True Day Films, (ESP)(European Commission, 2017 |
| Miracle in Lourdes | Nuns (various) | Audioprojects |
| Loopdidoo | Gwendolyne (seasons. 3, 4, 5) | Blue Spirit (France). Audioprojects (ESP)(2016)(currently |
| Gaia: The Big Mother | Narrator | Institut Geologic/Cartografic de Catalunya (feature doc) |
| Una Ma de Contes/A Handful of Stories | Narrator (& singing voices) | Catalunya Television, (Canal 33, English) |
| The Returned | Various | Filmax (Spain/Canada)Deluxe Studio 103 |
| Mama | Various | Toma 78 (Spain/Argentina/Canada) |
| Snowflake (The white Gorilla) | Mother | Filmax (Spain) |
| Bakhita | Various | G. Caciotti (Italia, CineCitta)&Audioprojects, Spain |
| Noemi | Mother | CBC/Audioprojects (Canada/Spain) |
| Hiroku | Various | O.E.K. Prods. (Spain/Japan) |
| Escape Hockey | The Governor (Episode 2) | Enne Ent. Studios, (Spain) |
| Paintball | Voice-in-off, (Walkie Talkie) | Filmax, Dir. Daniel Benmayor (Spain) |
| Diario de una Nimfómana | Cristina (voice, Angela Molina) | Filmax/Canonigo Films (Eng. vers) |
| The Man who Unfolded 1000 Hearts | Mother & Daughter (varias) | MediaPro, Spain – Documentary 2008 |
| Reflections | Various | Drim Tim, Spain |
| Colors | Narrator | Catalunya Television, Spain |
| Ordinary Boys | Singer (Fairy,SoundTrack) | Alea Docs/Films, (Spain/Morrocco) |
| Perez, (The Hairy Toothfairy 1 & 2)**** | MaryLou (Feature) | Filmax, España-Argentina (Spain/Argentina) |
| The Borgias | Mother (Voice, Angela Molina) | TV España, Spain |
| The Room | Mother (Principal) | Tele5, (ESP) (National TV, Spain) |
| A Handful of Stories | Narrator (4 stories) | Catalunya Television, (Canal 33, English) |
| ToysRUs | Child | AudioClip, (Spain) |
| Metal Ages | Scylla (Episodes) | Again Studios (Spain) |
| Nocturna (Llarg. metratge) | Various | Filmmax (Spain) |
| Donkey Xote (feature animation) | Narrator | Filmmax (Spain) |
| Il Compagno Americano (E.V) | 2 Seamstresses CineCittá, Italia | Audio Projects Spain/Italy |
| Goomer (Animated tv series) | 8 Characters | Filmmax Productions, (Spain) |
| 2020 (Animated tv series) | 6 Characters | Neptune Films, (Spain) |
| Legend of the Unicorn | Various | Audioprojects, Spain |
| Blood Circus (CD) | Various | Blood Circus Productions, (Spain) |
| He Shoots, He Scores (Series) | Reporter (The Journalist) | CBC, Montreal (Canada/Francia) |
| Pearl Mad (Short.) | Narrator | Martiros Productions/A.Martiros (Canadá) |
| Windows 95 (Microsoft Works) | Narrator/Various | I.Q. Interactive, (Canadá) |
| Cats Eyes and Star Stones (Indus.) | Narrator | Royal Ontario Museum (Canadá) |
| JVC (Ind. Video) | Various | The Partners Film Co. (Canadá) |
| McDonalds (Aununci Ràdio) | Narrator/Musical Arrangement | Vickers & Benson (Canadá) |
| Dairy Board of Canada | Singer/Musical Arrangement | Vickers & Benson (Canadá) |
*** Radio and Televisión ads; Jingles, Cine/Videos/ Industrials – International
**** El Ratoncito De Tus Sueños1/Perez, The Hairy Toothfairy, “ Goya”award 2006, SPAIN:Goya, Best feature length animation
Lead Singer/Director of Barcelona quintet, Mashalá (since 2004)
Selected Concerts/Festivals & Performances as (Sephardic/Mizrahi World Music :
- L’olivera i l’ametller: de terra comuna – Concert, Casa Adret Barcelona, Nov. 28. 2021
- Ecos de Sefarad – Concert, Casa Adret Barcelona, Juliol 3. 2021
- Salaam Shalom Parlament – Event & Concert, CCCB Barcelona, January 2019
- City of Lleida, Concert Tres Culturas, Gothic Quarter Primière –, Lleida, Spain, September 2018
- Museu Frederic Marès, Barcelona – Concert for inter-relgious Dialogue and Peace, July 2018
- Museu de Les Cultures del Mon – ¨Sherpa Sonor – Concert in duo – Junio 2017&2018
- Limud Barcelona – Concert – June 2014
- Festival des Cultures Juives – 2 Concerts and Conference, L´Université d´ÉtÉ Judeo-Espagnole, Aki Estamos Association Paris, Francia June – July 2013
- International Diasporic Film Festival – Presentation and Screening, Mashalá! Docu, Toronto, Nov. 2012
- Australian Sephardic Association – Concert, Gothic Quarter, Barcelona (Hotel Inglaterra), BCN 26 Oct. 2010; May 2011 & 2012
- Memorial to President Malam Bacai Sanha – Concert w/Cordes Del Mon World Music Orchestra and invited guests, Ajuntament Barcelona, 8-3-2012
- Sabadell Jazz i Mon – Concert, Auditori, Sabadell (Barcelona) – Feb. 15, 2012
- Festival of Sephardic Music – Concert, Plaça dels Jueus, Besalu (Gerona), SPAIN, 6-3-2011
- El Olivo y el Almendro de Tierra Común– Concert w/invited guests, Café Llibreria Context, Girona, 30-1-2011
- International Holocaust Rememberance Day – Concert, Plaça del Rei, guest artists, Barcelona 27-1-2011
- Ravaleja! – Concierto with the Liceu Jazz Orchestra Conservatory and special guest artists, Rambla del Raval, Barcelona 12/11/2010
- World Music Celebration – Concert, Pyrenees, (France), 3 de july, 2010
- XIVth Sephardic Film Festival – Documentary Mashalá, American Sephardi Federation, New York, 7 de Feb. 2010
- World Music Concert Series – Concert, Casa Rellotge Civic Centre, Zona Franca, Barcelona, 6 de Nov., 2009
- Vancouver Jewish Film Festival – Screening of the documentary “Mashalá”, Octubre 2009 (Vancouver, Canada)
- World Music Festival – Concert, Casa Elizalde, Patio Interior, Barcelona, 19 de Junio
- Xabia Folk/Xabia Jazz – Concert in duo. 2 de Mayo, Xabia (Alicante)
- Toronto Jewish Film Festival – Screening of the Documentary, Mashala, Abril 2009 (Toronto, Canada)
- Balkans World Music Festival: Impromptu performance, Imagine Bar, 21 Nov. 2008 (Tirana, Albania)
- Arberia-Sefarad: En el Espejo del Otro – Concert, National Theatre of Opera/Ballet, 20 de Nov. 2008 (Tirana, Albania)
- Mashalá! – One hour documentary, VisionTV, October 3rd, 6th 2008 – Across Canada. VisionTV, Salaam Shalom, Telefilm Canada
- “Solo Con Ellas” – Concierto, Cadiz, Santa Catalina Castle, July 18, 2008 (Spain)
- Live Concert/Shoot – Mashalá! Live in Concert, Music Special Shoot, (Salaam Shalom prods.) La Llotja, Barcelona
- Festival and Fair of Live Music – Concert, ¨Mercat de Vic,¨ Main Square September 15, 2007, Vic (Barcelona)
- Music Below the Palm Trees World Music Festival – Concert, Ateneu Patio, September 14, 2007, Barcelona
- VII Festival of Three Religions – Concert, Covarrubias, San Pedro Mártir, Toledo
- Festival of Traditional Music at the Castle – Concert, Denia Castle, 3 August, 2007, Denia (Alicante)
- Festival Internacional de Musica Sefardi (Festival of Sefardi Music) – Concert, 22nd June, 2007, Córdoba
- Arrels d’ Arreu (Roots from Everywhere) Festival – Concert, Sala Planeta Theatre, 29, May, 2007 Girona (Barcelona)
- Festival of Ancient Music (Judeo-Spanish Section) – Concert, May 13, 2007 – Jaen (Location, T.B.A.)
- Bilbao Ars Sacro (Sacred Music Festival)¨Las Moradas del Alma´(Marks of the soul) – Concert, 2nd April, 2007, Bilbao
- Diversons, World Music Series: Manuel de Falla Auditorium – Concert, 17th February, 2007, Granada
- Festival of Mystic Music – Concert, 15th December, 2006, Barcelona
- World Music Festival, Diversons – Concert, 7th de October, 2006 Castellón de la Plana (Valencia)
- Autumn Festival, Jerez / Al’Andalous Exhibition – Concert, 22nd September, 2006, Jerez de La Frontera (Andalucia)
- World Music Festival, Diversons – Concert, 6th September, 2006, Gijon (Asturias)
- World Music Festival, Diversons – Concert, 12th August 2006, Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz)
- ‘Summer Nights’ World Music Festival – 2 Concerts, CaixaForum, 9th August, 2006, Barcelona
- Festival of Religious World Music – Concert, Placa dels Jujats, 5th de July, 2006, Girona
- World Music Festival and “Al-Andalous” Exhibit, Diversons Eivissa – Municipality of Ibiza, 8 p.m., 10th of June, 2006, Ibiza
- 100th Anniversary of the Port of Algeciras, Diversons World Music Festival – el 24thMay, 2006, Algeciras. (Andalucia)
- 10th Festival of World Music , Diversons – Caixa Forum, Barcelona, October 2005
- 6th Annual European Day of Jewish Culture : Gastronomy: Origin, Love y Devocion Plaza del Rei, Barcelona, September 2005
- Exile – Concert, Centre Bonastruc ça Porta, Gerona (Barcelona) August 2005
- Peace and Coexistence – Concert Gothic Quarter, Sant Felip Neri, Barcelona, May 2005
- VI Tribos Ibéricas – New Tribes: Women Who Come from Afar –mini’tour Concerts: Santiago de Compostela, University Gustavo Freire Auditorium, Lugo – Galicia, Spain, January, 2005
- Hommage to Maimónides – Concert, University of Barcelona, Paranimf, Barcelona – Noviembre 2004
- 5th Annual European Day of Jewish Culture, National Museum of Art and History, MNAC, National Palace, Sept.’04 Barcelona
- Forum 2004: Parliament of Religions : «Exiliados», concert of Diasporic Sefardi/Mizrahi Music, Barcelona, July 2004