Eva Louise Hall is a professional, independent screenwriter and animator who has worked in the stop motion medium for over a decade. Through the use of textural aesthetics, tonal horror, and arresting visual metaphor, her films explore the darkest parts of the human condition while exploring our potential for beauty and kindness. She is owner and lead artist of the animation production studio Second Shadow. 

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Eva is a 2026 Creative Capital Awardee and a 2024 Sony Future Filmmaker Awards Finalist - one of 30 directors chosen from 5,000+ candidates. Her most recently released short, 'Mira,' toured the festival circuit to great success throughout 2023-2025, winning top awards in animation and horror categories at Fantastic Fest and SCAD Savannah Film Festival. Her current project, 'Pluck' (in development) was awarded a competitive Teri Rodgers Screenwriting Grant by ArtsKC and the KC Film Office and won Best Narrative Short Screenplay at Sidewalk Film Festival. 

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Outside of her creative professional practice, she is passionate about arts education and advocacy and works full-time as an Assistant Professor of Animation at the Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, MO.

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