A founding member of the Baltimore Film Mafia in the 70s, David "Charlie" Ellis was a driver in the production of the legendary super-indie genre pictures of that era in Baltimore. He ran an amateur fantasy/sf film competition at the Baltimore Science Fiction Convention in the early 1980s under the auspices of Starlog/Cinemagic magazine. In 1994, he started the very first Internet Magic Shop. He is currently a principal in Belgravia Pictures, and has worked on and in their "Glass Houses" and "The Coming".