Directing
Rebecca Shoptaw
Known for
Directing
Credits
10 titles
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
1.0A 10-minute short film that tells three intertwined LGBT love stories.
Happy Endings
2016
NRAdapted from "A Story Told In Twilight" by Stefan Zweig
MARGOT
2024
NRSappho’s poetry crosses the centuries to help two girls fall in love.
Girl, Sweetvoiced
2019
NRA modern reimagining of 'Sonnet 23' by William Shakespeare.
Sonnet 23
2016
NRDuring 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
2018
Behind the camera
1.0A 10-minute short film that tells three intertwined LGBT love stories.
Happy Endings
2016
NRAdapted from "A Story Told In Twilight" by Stefan Zweig
MARGOT
2024
NRAdapted from "A Story Told In Twilight" by Stefan Zweig
MARGOT
2024
NRSappho’s poetry crosses the centuries to help two girls fall in love.
Girl, Sweetvoiced
2019
NRSappho’s poetry crosses the centuries to help two girls fall in love.
Girl, Sweetvoiced
2019
NRA modern reimagining of 'Sonnet 23' by William Shakespeare.
Sonnet 23
2016
NRA modern reimagining of 'Sonnet 23' by William Shakespeare.
Sonnet 23
2016
NRA modern reimagining of 'Sonnet 23' by William Shakespeare.
Sonnet 23
2016
NRDuring 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
2018
NRDuring 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
2018