Writer, Killing Jar

Etzu Shaw is a Taiwanese-American filmmaker based in New York. She is a recent graduate of the Columbia University Film MFA program where she received the Sloan Screenplay Award and a 2024 SFFILM Sloan Science in Cinema Fellowship for her screenplay Killing Jar. This year, she was one of ten filmmakers selected for the 2025 season of Indeed’s Rising Voices, a short film series premiering at the Tribeca Festival. Etzu is also the recipient of the 2023 Reel Sisters Microbudget Fellowship for her comedic short film 29 Hour Famine, a Columbia University Audience Award winner.