Killing Jar
Killing Jar
Killing Jar
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After her mother's death, an entomologist struggles to process her grief while working.
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Etzu Shaw
Etzu Shaw is a Taiwanese-American filmmaker who likes to write about messy people, mostly in the intersection of all things female, queer, and Asian-American. She is a recent graduate of the Columbia University Film MFA program where she received the Alfred P. Sloan Screenplay Award and a 2024 SFFILM Sloan Science in Cinema Fellowship for her feature screenplay Killing Jar. In 2025 she wrote and directed a short of the same name through Indeed’s Rising Voices program, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Etzu’s feature screenplays have twice been selected by faculty as a top script at the Columbia University Film Festival screenwriting competition, and her comedic short thesis film 29 Hour Famine premiered at the 2024 HollyShorts Film Festival after winning a Columbia University Audience Award and a Reel Sisters Microbudget Fellowship. Outside of film Etzu works in projection design for theater and previously worked as a software engineer.