Elijah Allan-Blitz


Elijah Allan-Blitz is an American actor, musician, and Emmy award winning film director. He is known for his direction of the Emmy-nominated virtual reality experience "Take Every Wave: Laird in VR", which won a Lumiere Award.

Background

Allan-Blitz was born in Santa Barbara, California. As a musician, his single "Hey Yo" was nominated in the Grand Jury Award for Best Music Video category at the International Festival of Cinema Awards.
He has worked on The Shield, independent films and short films and the Peter Bogdanovich feature film, She's Funny That Way.
Allan-Blitz, is one of the first virtual reality directors for Time magazine, and an Emmy nominee and Lumiere Award winner. His virtual reality experience about the Holocaust was published as a companion piece for the Ken Burns documentary, Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War.
He has also directed virtual reality experiences for PBS, Van Jones, Aloe Blacc, HBO, Laird Hamilton and a VR psychedelic trip for Michael Pollan's book How To Change Your Mind.

Personal life

Allan-Blitz started dating actress Brie Larson in 2019. They have since broken up.

Filmography

The Shield, 2003In This Life, 2013She's Funny That Way, 2014Envoy, 2014Breakup Moving Service, 2014Full Ride, 2014Miami Dead County, 2016In This Life, 2018

Discography

  • "The Way the World Ends", single, 2010
  • "Come With Me Child", single, 2010
  • "Dmt", single, 2011The Photon Belt, album, 2012