Alexandra Shiva
Alexandra Elizabeth Shiva is an American film director. Bombay Eunuch is her 2001 award-winning film, and in 2015 she showed How to Dance in Ohio at the Sundance Film Festival in the US Documentary Competition. Shiva also founded a production studio called Gidalya Pictures. Personal life Shiva was born in New York City, the daughter of Susan (née Stein) and Gil Shiva. Her grandfather was Jules Stein, founder of MCA, the film, television, and record company. She graduated Vassar College in 1995 with her BA in Art History. In 2003, Shiva married writer Jonathan Marc Sherman, son of Dr. Ronald Sherman and Barbara Daniels Sherman.Together they have two children, a son Sam and a daughter Thea. Career Shiva's first directed documentary film was Bombay Eunuch (2001), which was also co-directed with Sean MacDonald and Michelle Gucovsky. The film was released by Shiva's production company Gidalya Pictures. It examined the decline in the traditional status of eunuchs in India focusing on one family. Meena the leader of the family Shiva follows around allowed the filmmakers into the private world of hijras in hopes of improving the stigma around hijras. Shiva accomplished gaining access to the private world of hijras, which has