Elaine McMillion Sheldon

About

Elaine McMillion Sheldon is an Academy Award-nominated, and Emmy and Peabody-winning documentary filmmaker based in Appalachia. Sheldon is the director of two Netflix Original Documentaries - HEROIN(E) and RECOVERY BOYS - that explore America's opioid crisis. HEROIN(E) was nominated for a 2018 Academy Award and won the 2018 Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Documentary. She was named a 2018 USA Fellow by United States Artists and one of the "25 New Faces of Independent Film" by Filmmaker Magazine. She has been commissioned by Netflix, PBS Frontline, The New York Times Op-Docs, TEDWomen, and Field of Vision. She is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow.