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Emily May Jampel is a director, writer, and actress born and raised in Honolulu and based in Brooklyn. Her films have played at festivals around the world, including Palm Springs, Aspen ShortsFest, Champs-Élysées, Hawaiʻi International Film Festival, and NewFest. Her short film Lucky Fish became a viral hit on TikTok after premiering on NOWNESS Asia. Emily previously worked as a Development Executive at the Academy Award-Nominated and Peabody Award-Winning production company The Department of Motion Pictures (Beasts of the Southern Wild, Monsters & Men, 32 Sounds, Gasoline Rainbow), was an associate producer on the podcast series Operator and a creative consultant on Constance Tsang’s debut narrative feature Blue Sun Palace, which premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week 2024 (Winner, French Touch Prize of the Jury) and was nominated for four Independent Spirit Awards.

Emily has curated short film programs at Metrograph, Allies in Arts, Brooklyn Art Haus, and NowHere Gallery, moderated filmmaker Q&As at Metrograph, NeueHouse, UnionDocs, and served as a jury member at the Mint Chinese Film Festival and Oakland Drunken Film Festival.

She is a 2026 New York State Council on the Arts Grantee, a 2024-2025 participant in the UFO (Untitled Filmmaker Org) Short Film Lab, an 18-month fellowship hosted at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She was listed on the 2024 Dazed100 and was a 2023 recipient of NewFest’s New Voices Filmmaker Grant in partnership with Netflix.

EMAIL

emilyjampel@gmail.com

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I offer creative consultation, screenplay feedback on projects at any stage of development, and have also spoken with students about filmmaking at institutions such as Yale College, Punahou School, and Brooklyn Collaborative Studies. Please reach out via email for rates and availability.