Etzu Shaw 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 feature screenplay Killing Jar. Her screenplays have twice been selected as a top script of the Columbia University Film Festival, and she is also the recipient of a 2023 Reel Sisters Microbudget Fellowship for her comedic short 29 Hour Famine. This year, she was selected for Season 5 of Rising Voices, a short film series premiering at Tribeca Film Festival produced by Indeed, Hillman Grad Productions and 271 Films.