Etzu Shaw (she, her) is a Taiwanese-American filmmaker who tends to write about young adults in crisis.

Etzu is a recent graduate of the Columbia University Film MFA program where she received the Alfred P. Sloan Screenplay Award and later a SFFILM Sloan Science in Cinema Fellowship for her feature screenplay Killing Jar. She was one of ten filmmakers selected for Season 5 of Indeed's Rising Voices, through which she wrote and directed a short film of the same name that premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and is now streaming on Hulu. She is a Film Independent Fellow through her selection for the Fast Track Finance Market, a Reel Sisters Microbudget Fellow, and a multi-year Faculty Selects screenwriter at the Columbia University Film Festival, where her comedic short film 29 Hour Famine, also won an Audience Award. She is represented by Persistent.

Outside of film Etzu works in projection design for theater, and previously worked as a software engineer. She is an avid fan of horror video games, cats, mahjong, and women's sports. These facts are unlikely to be relevant to why you are viewing her website, but she feels compelled to include them in a section labeled "About Me".