Name Eliza Hittman | Role Screenwriter | |
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Movies It Felt Like Love, Forever's Gonna Start Tonight, Buffalo Juggalos, Andy, Second Cousins Once Removed Nominations Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Director Similar People Gina Piersanti, Giovanna Salimeni, Ronen Rubinstein, Shrihari Sathe, Sean Porter | ||
Eliza hittman it felt like love a beyond cinema original interview
Eliza Hittman is a screenwriter, producer, and director born and based in New York City.
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- Eliza hittman it felt like love a beyond cinema original interview
- Dp 30 it felt like love writer director eliza hittman
- Early life
- Career
- References
Dp 30 it felt like love writer director eliza hittman
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. She graduated from Indiana University in 2001 with a BA in theater and drama, 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.
Career
Her short film Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight premiered at Sundance in 2011 and was on Indiewire's "The Best of the Best" list.
Hittman's first feature film, It Felt Like Love, opened at IFC Center in March 2014, and has received positive reviews, with a score of 84% on Rotten Tomatoes. It was a New York Times and Village Voice Critics' Pick. She was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Indie Film in 2013. In 2014, for It Felt Like Love, she was nominated as Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director, and for the John Cassavetes Spirit Award.
Her second film Beach Rats, which was selected for the 2015 Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab, had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2017, and was acquired by Neon.
