Annette Elliot is a writer and filmmaker who creates intimate psychological portraits. Her films draw self-consciously on the history of painting, sculpture and architecture. In 2012, she completed a Master of Fine Arts at School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was awarded the Fred J. Forster Fellowship for emerging artists. Other awards include the Illinois Arts Council Grant, DCASE Individual Artist Grant, Sundance Development Track Finalist, SAIC Faculty Enrichment Grant, Luminarts Visual Arts Fellowship, and the Polish Museum of America Pulaski Grant. Her public video installations have been exhibited internationally, including in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Berlin, Germany; Toffia, Italy; Iquitos, Peru; and Wellington, New Zealand.