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Eliza Hittman
New York, New York, USA
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 20…
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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. Hittman's first feature film, It Felt Like Love, premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and opened at the IFC Center in New York in March 2014. Her second film Beach Rats, was selected for the 2015 Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab, had its world premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Her third film, Never Rarely Sometimes Always premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, where it won a Special Jury Award for Neo-Realism. The film was also selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival and won Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize, the second most prestigious prize at the festival.
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2025
Karnama (Well of Death)
Movie Thanks
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2025
Realm of Satan
Movie Co-Producer
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2024
Dìdi (弟弟)
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2024
Bust
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2022
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
Movie Self
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2022
A Friend of the Family
TV show Director
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2021
Dog Story
Movie Thanks
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2020
Driveways
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2020
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Movie Director
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2019
Matthias & Maxime
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2017
Beach Rats
Movie Director
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2017
13 Reasons Why
TV show Director
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2016
High Maintenance
TV show Director
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2014
Listen Up Philip
Movie Thanks
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2014
Buffalo Juggalos
Movie Producer
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2013
It Felt Like Love
Movie Director
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2011
Forever's Gonna Start Tonight
Movie Producer
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2010
Second Cousins Once Removed
Movie Producer
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Motherlove
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