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Elodie Edjang

Elodie Edjang (she/her) is a French-born, Atlanta-bred, Cameroonian creator. She is a documentary based multi-disciplinary storyteller and story consultant. She specializes in short-form content, character portraits, participatory filmmaking, and blending narrative and documentary techniques. Previously, Elodie served as the lead video editor for Local Legend Films a Chicago-based production company and was selected as a 2019 NeXt Doc Fellow, a fellowship for emerging filmmakers of color. Elodie is passionate about community building in the documentary field and is the mentorship committee co-chair for the Alliance of Documentary Editors. Her latest short documentary Book of Daniel screened at Tacoma Film Festival, Black Harvest Film Festival, and Block Cinema of Art. She is currently directing a poetic long form documentary about queer Christian women of color and co-directing a short documentary about Kartemquin Films co-founder Gordon Quinn through Red Door Media Collective, a five person collective of emerging filmmakers. Elodie holds an MFA in Documentary Media from Northwestern University and earned a B.A. in Anthropology and a B.A.J. in Advertising from the University of Georgia.