Rebecca Shoptaw
Directing
Biography
Rebecca Shoptaw is the writer, director, cinematographer and editor behind a number of award-winning short films, along with the critically-acclaimed web series "Middlemarch: The Series." Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, Le Monde, and i-D magazine, and screened at festivals internationally such as BFI Flare, NewFest, and the Pilot Light TV Festival. She has an abiding interest in adaptation, and is always experimenting, trying to figure out new ways to use cinematic language to take what seems untranslatable in writing and get it onscreen. She is based in NYC. [FROM REBECCASHOPTAW.COM]
Known For
Sappho’s poetry crosses the centuries to help two girls fall in love.
Girl, Sweetvoiced
A 10-minute short film that tells three intertwined LGBT love stories.
Happy Endings
A modern reimagining of 'Sonnet 23' by William Shakespeare.
Sonnet 23
During the rehearsal process for a tragic gay play, two boys in a college theater class do some thinking about the nature of representation.
Untitled Tenderness Project
Adapted from "A Story Told In Twilight" by Stefan Zweig