Elodie Edjang (Chicago, IL)

Elodie Edjang (she/her) is a French-born, Atlanta-raised, Cameroonian filmmaker based in Chicago whose work blends narrative and documentary forms. She is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Documentary Media MFA program. Her short doc, Book of Daniel (2018), screened at Tacoma Film Festival and Black Harvest. Her work-in-progress, Queer Christians, is a 2020 NeXt Doc Flex Fund recipient, 2023 Sisters in Cinema Documentary Fellowship finalist, and 2023 Chicago DCASE grant recipient. She is also co-directing a film about Kartemquin Films’ co-founder, Gordon Quinn. Elodie is a member of The Reservoir Collective, awarded the Hyde Park Art Center’s Artist Run Fund and Crossroads’ 2024 Seed Fund. She is committed to community building and artist development and has held leadership roles in programs supported by the Alliance of Documentary Editors, Mezcla Media Collective, and Full Spectrum Features. The Queer Christians project that Elodie will work on throughout the fellowship highlights four queer Christian women of color. The women revel in moments of exuberant joy while wrestling with what is gained and lost when leaving one home to build a new one.