Elijah Stevens is a documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. His work explores space, time & the Anthropocene.
Elijah is currently producing a slate of independent feature productions, and is a founding producer of Signpost Pictures, with Sara Dosa and Shane Boris. He has associate produced the Oscar-nominated Fire of Love, as well as Hollywoodgate, King Coal, Sky and Ground, The Seer and the Unseen, the Academy Award-shortlisted documentary short Los Comandos, and others. He has worked for VICE, Part2 Pictures, Show of Force, Actual Films, and Cousins Company, and has associate produced a short-form documentary series for The New York Times. His work has been supported by Sundance, The Gotham, DOC NYC, DOK.Forum, DocsBarcelona, DOK Leipzig, and Ji.hlava, amongst others.
Elijah’s work as a director has screened at Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Tacoma FF, Light Matter FF, UnionDocs, and more.
Elijah was a 2019-2020 fellow in the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio, and received his BA in Government and Latin American Studies from Wesleyan University. He is a member of the Documentary Producers Alliance and Writers Guild of America-East.