Shelby Hadden

Shelby Hadden

Biography

Shelby Hadden is a writer, crowdfunding manager, and documentary filmmaker whose work explores issues of gender and identity. Her films have screened at various film festivals including Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival and Sidewalk Film Festival. Her film Tightly Wound is a short animated film about her personal experience with chronic pelvic pain, based on her essay that was published in BUST Magazine. She is a producer at Blue Suitcase Productions and a lecturer at Texas State University. She has also been an instructor at the University of Texas at Austin where she received her MFA in Film and Media Production.

El Festival Internacional de Cine de Guanajuato

Director

Documentaries
2017

Tightly Wound

2015

Her & Me

Short
2014

The Dove Scouts

Producer

Documentaries
2024

Faders Up: The John Aielli Experience

2017

Tightly Wound

Short
2023

Wüm

Screenwriter

Documentaries
2017

Tightly Wound

Short
2014

The Dove Scouts

Editor

Documentaries
2015

Her & Me

Short
2014

The Dove Scouts