Natalie Shirinian is an award-winning writer, director, and producer known for intimate, visually driven storytelling across narrative, documentary, and conceptual work. Her films have screened internationally and earned multiple audience and jury awards, with standout projects including INTERIOR MOTIVES (2017), acquired into the permanent collection of the Rhode Island School of Design, and PAREV MAMA (2020), which garnered top audience honors on the festival circuit.
She co-founded the production company Not All Films with her wife, Elizabeth Baudouin, where they develop auteur-driven work at the intersection of art, fashion, and cinema. Their collaborations include Baudouin’s debut, BREAKUP TEXT (2023), which won the Audience Award at the HollyShorts Film Festival, with Shirinian starring and producing. They also produced the Oscar-qualifying documentary short ALOK (2024), directed by Alex Hedison and executive produced by Jodie Foster, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and screened at the Telluride Film Festival.
Most recently, Shirinian co-directed ROOM OF THE ABSOLUTE (2026), a documentary on Ukrainian painter Alla Hurenko, created in collaboration with Baudouin. The film is currently on the international festival circuit and won the Special Jury Award at the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Film Festival. She is currently developing her next slate of directorial projects, including her debut feature, PONCHIK, which she wrote and will direct, continuing her focus on bold, underrepresented narratives. Shirinian and Baudouin were recently named to the Wallpaper 400, the magazine’s list of people shaping creative America today. She is also a member of the SAG-AFTRA.