Eliza Hittman

Born in New York, director, screenwriter and producer Eliza Hittman studied art at the California Institute of the Arts. Her feature film debut “It Felt Like Love” premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. There, her second film, “Beach Rats” (2017), also premiered and won the Directing Award. Her third feature film “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” was presented in the Berlinale Competition in 2020 and was awarded the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2018 and served as jury president at the 2021 Locarno Film Festival. Hittman is currently an associate professor of film/video at the Pratt Institute.