Artemis Shaw is a filmmaker and educator from New York City interested in tragicomedy, docufiction, and works in collaboration.
As a producer, Artemis champions interdisciplinary filmmakers pushing narrative form. Her latest film, Prashanth Kamalakanthan’s Have a Nice Life, premiered at the Maryland Film Festival in 2021. She associate produced Josephine Decker’s 2014 Thou Wast Mild and Lovely and Tayarisha Poe’s 2019 Selah and the Spades.
As a director, her work spans scripted, documentary, and new media. Her short film work includes Single Room Occupancy (2016); Aquaculture (2017); Safari Video (2018); and Real Talk (2020). Her debut feature, New Strains (2023), won a Special Jury Award at IFFR 2023. She is a recipient of the NYC Women’s Grant, Clive Davis Award in Music, and Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Film.
She has taught filmmaking at Tribeca Film Institute, Ghetto Film School, Moving of the Moving Image, Thaden School, New York University, and currently Virginia Commonwealth University. She holds a BA from Columbia University and a dual MBA-MFA in filmmaking from NYU Stern School of Business and Tisch School of the Arts.