Emilie is an award-winning filmmaker whose career spans narrative, experimental, and documentary, feature and short films, as well as public video projections and digital exhibitions. An alumna of the Rotterdam Producers Lab (2014), she has received support from the Andy Warhol Foundation (2019) for her video installation, Controlled Wild.
Emilie began her filmmaking practice during a decade spent living in Trinidad and Tobago, where she served as Creative Director of the trinidad+tobago film festival and led initiatives including the Caribbean Film Database and the Caribbean Film Mart. In 2017, she released her debut narrative feature, Moving Parts, which examines human smuggling and sex trafficking in Port of Spain and is distributed by Indiepix.
Her work centers female-driven stories, prioritizing women's representation both on screen and behind the camera. She works with professional actors and non-actors alike and is committed to close collaboration with the communities her films represent.
At the University of Colorado, Boulder, Emilie was awarded a Digital Humanities Fellowship and the President's Award to develop a digital exhibition drawn from the archive of Ann Roy, a feminist who worked to bridge the cultures of Mexico and the U.S. She collaborated with the University Museum to curate a show from the collection titled Patriarchosis.
On location Havasu Creek, Colorado River, Grand Canyon. Photo by: Amy Johnson.
She recently completed Leo Sacer, a social documentary exploring the complex interactions between residents of a small mountain community and a relocated mountain lion.
Emilie is currently developing her second feature, Life Without End, an eco-western set in the near future on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon. Its proof of concept, Silt, premiered at the Independent Film Festival Boston, where it won the Special Jury Award. It has since screened at festivals including Chicago Underground, Charlotte, Hawaii, Denver, Dallas, Santa Fe, and the Mother Tongue Film Festival at the Smithsonian. Silt received a Climate Resiliency & Storytelling Award from FEMA as well as the Jury Prize at the Borders/No Borders Film Festival in Houston.
Emilie is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma, serves on the board of the Mimesis Film Festival, and is a member of Film Fatales.