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Eliza Hittman (born December 9, 1979) is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer from New York City.
- Finding Her Cast
- Unique Production Challenges
- Moving The Release Online
Hittman knew the story she wanted to tell, and finding the right young women to bring it to life was crucial. Sidney Flanigan, a young actress and musician from Buffalo, New York, makes her feature acting debut in the film as the pregnant Autumn. Hittman’s longtime editor (and partner) Scott Cummings first met Flanigan back in 2012 researching a fi...
The film shot for a total of 29 days in March and April 2019, in New York City and Shamokin, Pennsylvania. In small-town Pennsylvania, citizens are predominantly conservative so the production wanted to mostly keep the themes of the film under wraps. They were so under the radar, in fact, that one community member was scared human trafficking was g...
After a challenging production, the launch into the world was going according to plan. The film had its world premiere at Sundance in January 2020, where it won a special jury prize. At Berlinale Competition in February, it won the Silver Bear Jury Prize (and also placed top of Screen’s jury grid). Focus Features planned to build on that festival a...
Jan 31, 2020 · A restrained knockout with potential for real-world impact, Hittman’s latest avoids the trappings of controversy and is all the more successful in addressing the issue for that. Buzzing from the praiseful Sundance reception, Hittman told RogerEbert.com about what drew her to the multiple-choice title, the motivations behind specific narrative ...
Feb 15, 2021 · For one of the hardest-hitting scenes of the year, Sidney Flanigan found the truth in Eliza Hittman’s “Never Rarely Sometimes Always.” Jan. 5, 2021
Feb 29, 2020 · The abortion drama has been evolving since 2013, when she was editing her first micro-budget feature “It Felt Like Love,” and read a newspaper article about the death of Savita Halappanavar, an...
Apr 6, 2020 · Eliza Hittman: I started thinking about the film in 2012. I was reading about the death of Savita Halappanavar in Ireland, a woman who passed away after being denied a lifesaving abortion, and the journey that women would take from Ireland [to access abortion in England] — across the Irish Sea to London and back in one day.
Jan 31, 2020 · Hittman has been nursing this movie since 2012, when she read about a young woman in Ireland who’d died when she was denied what could have been a life-saving abortion.
