about
Rebecca Shoptaw is the writer, director, cinematographer and editor behind a number of award-winning short films, along with the critically-acclaimed web series "Middlemarch: The Series."
Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, Le Monde, and i-D magazine, and screened at festivals internationally such as BFI Flare, NewFest, and the Pilot Light TV Festival.
She has an abiding interest in adaptation, and is always experimenting, trying to figure out new ways to use cinematic language to take what seems untranslatable in writing and get it onscreen.
She is based in NYC.
Current Work
New Wave: A collection of new shorts, all shot on film. First film Margot out now. Watch the films.
portfolio Highlights
Press Highlights
screening Highlights
The New Yorker
Review - “Middlemarch” Gets Winningly Adapted as a Webseries
Le Monde
Review - Le roman « Middlemarch » de George Eliot adapté en websérie
i-D Magazine
Interview - “middlemarch” is now a coming of age web series
BFI Flare
Official Selection 2020 - Girl, Sweetvoiced
NewFest
Official Selection 2020 - Girl, Sweetvoiced
Official Selection 2016 - Sonnet 23
Manchester Pilot Light TV Festival
Best International Web Series 2019 - Love Language