Eliza Hittman

Eliza Hittman is a screenwriter, producer, and director born and based in New York City. 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.

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.

Her short film Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight premiered at Sundance in 2011 and was on Indiewire's "The Best of the Best" list.

She is currently in development on her second feature, Beach Rats, which was selected for the 2015 Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab.

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.