Montclair Film Festival · CC BY 2.0

Eliza Hittman writes and directs films that follow young people through difficult, often unspoken circumstances, most fully realized in Never Rarely Sometimes Always, the story of a teenager traveling out of state for an abortion. The film won both the New York Film Critics Circle and National Society of Film Critics awards for best screenplay, cementing Hittman's reputation for unsentimental, closely observed drama.