Elivia Shaw

An award-winning filmmaker based in Oakland, CA, Elivia is driven by filmmaking that uses intimacy and personal narrative to question our larger social systems and identities. Her work has been featured on the Atlantic and PBS, and screened at festivals including AFI DOCS, DOC NYC, and Big Sky. Her short film, The Clinic, won awards at seven festivals including the Grand Jury Prize at AFI Fest. She previously worked on award-winning television series and documentaries for Al Jazeera, HBO and PBS including Al Jazeera’s Empire, Life According to Sam and Sky & Ground . Elivia Co-Produced Natalia Almada’s Users, winner of the 2021 Directing Award at Sundance, and Co-Produced and Co-Edited Leslie Tai’s How to Have an American Baby (True False 2023, PBS POV 2023). Her work has been supported by ITVS, SFFILM, the Redford Center and the Berkeley Film Foundation. She is a graduate of Stanford University’s Documentary MFA program where she has also taught film production courses.