Emma is a Gotham Award–nominated filmmaker whose work explores the messiness and beauty of being human. She produced Iliana Sosa’s SXSW award-winning What We Leave Behind (ARRAY Releasing/Netflix), a New York Times “Critic’s Pick,” and recently directed the short documentary “The School of Canine Massage” (SXSW 2024). As development executive for nonfiction at Concordia Studio, she worked on Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning films that premiered at Sundance, Tribeca and Telluride, including Time (Amazon Studios), Boys State (Apple TV+/A24) and Procession (Netflix). She was a casting associate for Showtime’s Couples Therapy series; associate producer of the Academy Award-nominated short documentary “Knife Skills” (The New Yorker); associate producer of the Oscar-shortlisted, Sundance award-winning feature Unrest (Independent Lens/Netflix); and co-producer of an upcoming feature for National Geographic Documentaries. Emma was named one of DOC NYC’s “40 Under 40” and one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.”
She is a 2023 Sundance Producing Lab Fellow and 2024 JFI Filmmaker in Residence. She is currently directing her feature debut, Father Figures.
