Elizabeth Chatelain
Born and raised in Fargo, North Dakota, Elizabeth Chatelain is an award-winning documentary and narrative filmmaker. Her short documentary MY SISTER SARAH won the International Documentary Association’s Award for Best Student Documentary and was a Student Academy Award Finalist. Her films have screened at festivals across the country and the world, including SXSW and Interfilm Berlin. Her directorial feature debut, written by father and son Bruce and Abel Pavalon about a young person transitioning in small-town Minnesota, won the Prairie Spirit Award at the Fargo Film Festival. She just completed her second feature, LOVED ONE, which participated in the Women in Film/Sundance Institute Financing Intensive, was a Slamdance Screenwriting Competition finalist, and is supported by SFFilm.
Chatelain participated in the Berlinale Script Station and is a Showtime Tony Cox Screenplay Competition Winner and Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition Winner. She is a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, a WIF/Black List Screenwriting Fellow and an NRDC/Black List Climate Storytelling Fellow. She holds an MFA in Film and Video Production from University of Texas at Austin and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU-Tisch.
