Alexandra Elizabeth Shiva is an American film producer and director.
Bombay Eunuch is her 2001 award-winning film, and in 2015 she showed
How to Dance in Ohio at the Sundance Film Festival in the US
Documentary Competition. Shiva also founded a production studio called
Gidalya Pictures.Shiva was born in New York City, the daughter of
Susan (née Stein) and Gil Shiva. Her grandfather was Jules Stein,
founder of MCA, the film, television, and record company. She
graduated Vassar College in 1995 with her BA in Art History. In 2003,
Shiva married writer Jonathan Marc Sherman, son of Dr. Ronald Sherman
and Barbara Daniels Sherman.Shiva's first directed documentary film
was Bombay Eunuch (2001), which was also co-directed with Sean
MacDonald and Michelle Gucovsky. The film was released by Shiva's
production company Gidalya Pictures. It examined the decline in the
traditional status of eunuchs in India focusing on one family. Meena
the leader of the family Shiva follows around allowed the filmmakers
into the private world of hijras in hopes of improving the stigma
around hijras. Shiva accomplished gaining access to the private world
of hijras, which has traditionally been inaccessible to journalists.
Thus allowing for a glimpse of a secretive, invisible world. The New
Yorker commended the film for dignifying these outcasts and never
condescending them.In 2006, Shiva directed her second documentary film
Stagedoor. The film is about the Stagedoor Manor, a premier summer
theatre camp for children ages 8 â€" 18. The film follows extroverted,
budding young actors at Stagedoor Manor, where her husband also
attended as a boy.
Bombay Eunuch is her 2001 award-winning film, and in 2015 she showed
How to Dance in Ohio at the Sundance Film Festival in the US
Documentary Competition. Shiva also founded a production studio called
Gidalya Pictures.Shiva was born in New York City, the daughter of
Susan (née Stein) and Gil Shiva. Her grandfather was Jules Stein,
founder of MCA, the film, television, and record company. She
graduated Vassar College in 1995 with her BA in Art History. In 2003,
Shiva married writer Jonathan Marc Sherman, son of Dr. Ronald Sherman
and Barbara Daniels Sherman.Shiva's first directed documentary film
was Bombay Eunuch (2001), which was also co-directed with Sean
MacDonald and Michelle Gucovsky. The film was released by Shiva's
production company Gidalya Pictures. It examined the decline in the
traditional status of eunuchs in India focusing on one family. Meena
the leader of the family Shiva follows around allowed the filmmakers
into the private world of hijras in hopes of improving the stigma
around hijras. Shiva accomplished gaining access to the private world
of hijras, which has traditionally been inaccessible to journalists.
Thus allowing for a glimpse of a secretive, invisible world. The New
Yorker commended the film for dignifying these outcasts and never
condescending them.In 2006, Shiva directed her second documentary film
Stagedoor. The film is about the Stagedoor Manor, a premier summer
theatre camp for children ages 8 â€" 18. The film follows extroverted,
budding young actors at Stagedoor Manor, where her husband also
attended as a boy.
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