‘Hawe’ like ‘Café’
NBC Universal - STAN - BINGE - PEACOCK
Emily is a Maori-English Australian filmmaker.
BIO
Emily is a screenwriter and director from the Northern Territory, currently based in Darug ‘Sydney’, Australia.
DIRECTOR ASSISTING
She works primarily as a freelance on-set director’s assistant and has extensive experience in project development, production support, document design, and research. Emily is a creative collaborator, storyteller, and general busybody.
As a freelancer she creates high-quality visual documents for TV commercials, film, and television. Emily has created successful pitch documents for narrative projects picked up by NBC Universal, STAN, BINGE, PEACOCK, and more.
film love
Her favourites are detail-oriented filmmaking (Wes Anderson, David Fincher), existential killer (The Hit, Michael Clayton, Grosse Pointe Blank), poetic epics (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Days of Heaven, Lawrence of Arabia, Beau Travail, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), heroines (Practical Magic, Citizen Ruth, Diabolique, Last Days of Disco), no artifice chaos (Slap Shot) and horrors (The Exorcist, Donald Pleasance, John Carpenter).
SELECTED RESUME
2022-24 ~ NARRATIVE
Sony Feature Film - producer’s assistant
Otto by Otto, Stan - dir. assistant to gracie otto
Untitled Russell T Davies project, Curio Pictures
Untitled Jemma Carlton project, Curio Pictures
Wolf Like Me, Made Up Stories - abe forsythe
Strife, Made Up Stories - loretta cosgrove
producer, room service films
2020-24 ~ COMMERCIAL
directors Assistant - Lara Everly
directors Assistant - Matt McCaughey
directors Assistant - Steve Unltd.
directors Assistant - Raskols
directors Assistant - Gemma Lee
2015/19
bachelor of arts (film studies/english studies) university of sydney
2018
Desert Dash - script editor, director assistant, associate producer - prize $USD20K
2015/19
directors Assistant - gracie otto, ralf films
ACHIEVEMENTS
2021
writers attachment - Thor 4: Love and Thunder
2020
finalist Animal Logic LA Producer Placement
2019
canon filmmakers fund recipient $AUD15,000
2018
Desert Dash - soho house ‘Script House’ Winner - $USD20K
2018
directors attachment - Mr inbetween