Eliza Hittman

Eliza Hittman
Hittman at the 2017 Montclair Film Festival
Born Flatbush, Brooklyn, U.S.
Education Edward R. Murrow High School
Alma mater
Occupation
  • Director
  • writer
  • producer
Years active 2008–present

Eliza Hittman is a screenwriter, producer, and director born and based in New York City.

Early life

Hittman was born and raised in Flatbush, Brooklyn. She attended Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn, where she was a theater buff.[1] She graduated from Indiana University in 2001 with a BA in theater and drama,[2] but later went on to study art and film, and in 2010 received her MFA from the School of Film/Video at California Institute of the Arts.[3]

Career

Her short film Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight premiered at Sundance in 2011[4] and was on Indiewire's "The Best of the Best" list.[5]

Hittman's first feature film, It Felt Like Love, opened at IFC Center in March 2014,[6] and has received positive reviews, with a score of 84% on Rotten Tomatoes.[7] It was a New York Times[8] and Village Voice[9] Critics' Pick. She was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Indie Film in 2013.[10]

She directed two episodes of 13 Reasons Why in 2018.

Awards

In 2014, for It Felt Like Love, she was nominated as Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director,[11] and for the John Cassavetes Spirit Award.[12]

Her second film Beach Rats, which was selected for the 2015 Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab,[13] had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2017, and was acquired by Neon.[14][15] At Sundance, she won the Directing Award.

She was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018.[16]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Mark, Morales. "Murrow HS grad's first full-length film to be featured at Sundance with a little help from alumni". NY Daily News. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  2. ↑ "Stages" (PDF). Indiana University. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  3. ↑ Fraser, Paul. "24700". blog.calarts.edu. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "Forever's Gonna Start Tonight". Sundance Institute. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  5. ↑ Katie, Walsh. "Exclusive: Poster Premiere For Sundance Coming-Of-Age Drama 'It Felt Like Love'". Indiewire. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  6. ↑ "It Felt Like Love". IFC Center. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  7. ↑ "It Felt Like Love (2014)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  8. ↑ Catsoulis, Jeannette. "It Felt Like Love (2013)". NY Times. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  9. ↑ Wilson, Chuck. "It Felt Like Love: A Bracing Look at What Girls Want". Village Voice. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  10. ↑ "Eliza Hittman". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  11. ↑ Luers, Erik (October 23, 2014). "Nominees Announced for 24th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards by IFP". IFP. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  12. ↑ "30th Film Independent Spirit Awards Nominations Announced". Film Independent. November 25, 2014. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  13. ↑ "Sundance Institute Announces 12 Projects for 2015 January Screenwriters Lab". Sundance. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  14. ↑ "Beach Rats". Sundance Film Festival. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  15. ↑ Hipes, Patrick (January 28, 2017). "'Beach Rats' Lands Deal With Neon At Sundance". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  16. ↑ https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/eliza-hittman/
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