documentary filmmaker

About

Elijah Stevens is a documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York.

Elijah is producing a slate of independent features under his company Space Time Films, and is a founding producer of Signpost Pictures, with Sara Dosa and Shane Boris. He specializes in formally-inventive and thought-provoking creative nonfiction, and international co-productions.

He has produced TIME AND WATER (Sundance 2026), BARBARA FOREVER (Sundance 2026) which won the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award at Sundance and Teddy Award at Berlinale, LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY (True/False 2026), and HUMBOLDT USA (Visions du Réel 2026). He associate produced HOLLYWOODGATE (Venice 2023; BBC Storyville), KING COAL (Sundance 2023, POV), and the Oscar-nominated FIRE OF LOVE (Sundance 2022, National Geographic Documentary Films), amongst other credits.

Elijah’s work has been supported by Sundance, IDA, the Inmaat Foundation, IDFA, DOK Leipzig, The Gotham, DocsBarcelona, DOC NYC, DOK.Forum, and Ji.hlava, among others. Elijah was a 2019-2020 fellow in the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio, and is a 2025-26 Sundance Producers Lab fellow.