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

She is a recent graduate of the Columbia University Film MFA program where she received the Alfred P. Sloan Screenplay Award and later a 2024 SFFILM Sloan Science in Cinema Fellowship for her feature screenplay Killing Jar. In 2025, Etzu was one of ten filmmakers selected for Season 5 of 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. Etzu's feature screenplays have twice been selected as a top script of the Columbia University Film Festival, and in 2023 she was the recipient of the Reel Sisters Microbudget Fellowship for her comedic short film 29 Hour Famine, a Columbia University Audience Award winner. Etzu is also a Film Independent Fellow through her selection for the 2025 Fast Track Finance Market.

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".