Elaine McMillion Sheldon director

Elaine McMillion Sheldon is an Academy Award-nominated, and Emmy and Peabody-winning documentary filmmaker. She is the director of two Netflix Original Documentaries – Heroin(e) and Recovery Boys – that explore America’s opioid crisis. She was named a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, a 2018 USA Fellow by United States Artists, and one of the Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Elaine is based in Knoxville, Tennessee.