Elisha Miranda is an award-winning film director, writer and producer of Puerto Rican descent. She was born and raised in the Mission District of San Francisco, California but has living on the east coast since 1996. Latina, MS, Trace and Hispanic Magazine have proclaimed her work to be visionary, powerful and full of visual soul. Often lauded as a director and writer to watch for, she received her MFA in film directing and screenwriting from Columbia University. She learned her craft as a director and screenwriter from such esteemed directors and writers as Mira Nair, Tom Kalin, Katherine Deickmann, Janet Roache, Tracy Poust and Jim V.Hart. Her award-winning shorts have screened internationally and domestically. Her feature film script Outside the Wall was an official select of Tribeca All Access at The Tribeca Film Festival and a Sundance finalist. Elisha is also an award-winning young adult novelist, under her pen name E-Fierce she wrote The Sistahood: On the Mic series that was published by Simon & Schuster that has been optioned for television. She is a Co-Founder of the East Harlem, New York non-profit Chica Luna Productions and a partner at Sister Outsider Entertainment.

Elisha has moved towards also directing commercials and music videos. She is also directing her first feature film and is the Co-Creator of the original television series Sangria Street, a Latina twist on Sex in the City. Her company Chica Sol Films is developing several film and television projects. Elisha is also an adjunct professor of film and television.

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