Emily (she/they) is an experimental filmmaker and editor with an interest in geography and hybrid formats. Their directorial work has been screened at film festivals and theaters across the country, including at Anthology Film Archives, BlackStar, DOCNYC, and others. Emily’s short film By Way of Canarsie, which she co-directed with Lesley Steele, is streaming on the Criterion Channel and was a part of POV Shorts Season 6. Her archival film Too Long Here, which Criterioncast called “a fascinating, important work” about the inauguration of an international park, has been used as an advocacy tool for its preservation. As an editor, Emily’s work has been featured in the New Yorker (The Victorias by Ethan Fuirst), on PBS (When I’m Her by Emily Schuman), and on Vimeo Staffpicks. Her feature film editorial experience spans indie narrative (Newfest darling Summer Solstice by Noah Schamus), experimental nonfiction (Catalina Jordan Alvarez’s forthcoming Sound Spring), historical arthouse fiction (Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s upcoming devotional film to a woman of color left at the margins of Surrealism), and personal essay film (a hybrid feature by Lynne Sachs currently in development). In addition to her editing and directing work, Emily serves on programming committees for film festivals in New York City and guest-curated the Coastal Knowledge series for the Rockaway Film Festival in 2021. They were a fellow in the 2018 Collaborative Studio at UnionDocs in Brooklyn, and are a proud alumna of the anomalous Hampshire College. Emily collects voicemails for future use; consider yourself notified.
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