DIRECTORS

Eva Vives is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. In 2000, she won the Best Short Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival with FIVE FEET HIGH AND RISING, a short she cast, edited and produced. She followed that up with the feature RAISING VICTOR VARGAS, which she co-wrote.  She has been working on numerous projects since then, including CHROME & PAINT, which she co-wrote with Ice Cube. She was also one of four writers in the Disney Writers Program from 2010-2012.  Most recently Vives wrote and directed her short film JOIN THE CLUB, which was admitted to the Sundance Film Festival in 2016, among others. She was also a finalist for the 2016 Atlanta Film Festival’s Filmmaker to Watch. Vives is a proud Sundance Screenwriters Lab fellow and is developing her feature NINA, about a stand up comedian who has to come to terms with her past in order to move forward.