Elivia Shaw

Elivia is an award-winning filmmaker driven by filmmaking that uses intimacy and personal narrative to question our larger social systems. Her work has been featured on the Atlantic and PBS and her short film, The Clinic won awards at seven film festivals including AFI Fest. She previously worked on award-winning documentaries for Al Jazeera, HBO and PBS. Elivia was a Co-Producer on Natalia Almada’s USERS (2021 Directing Award Sundance) and Co-Producer and Co-Editor on Leslie Tai’s How to Have an American Baby (True False 2023, PBS’ POV). Her work has been supported by the Redford Center, Berkeley Film Foundation, ITVS and SFFILM. She is a graduate of Stanford University’s Documentary MFA program where she has taught production courses since 2018.