Emily is a director, writer, and producer born and raised in Honolulu and currently based in New York City. Her short film Lucky Fish has played at festivals around the world including Palm Springs (Winner, Young Cineastes Award, Special Mention, Best LGBTQ+ Short), Champs-Élysées (Winner, Audience Award Best American Independent Short Film), Outfest L.A., Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, and went on to become a viral hit after premiering online on NOWNESS Asia. Emily was one of the 2023 Recipients of the New Voices Filmmaker Grant, a new initiative from NewFest in partnership with Netflix. Her latest narrative short Mānoa Valley starring Lukita Maxwell (Shrinking, The Young Wife, Genera+ion) premiered at Aspen ShortsFest 2024. She was featured in a global campaign with GAP x The Brooklyn Circus alongside Indya Moore, Bethann Hardison, Javon Walton, and Stephen "tWitch" Boss, and listed on the 2024 Dazed100.
Emily has curated film programs for Metrograph, Allies in Arts, Brooklyn Art Haus, and NowHere Gallery and served as a jury member at the Mint Chinese Film Festival and Oakland Drunken Film Festival. She has screened work and spoken at Yale University, Carleton College, Brooklyn Lab, Bryn Mawr, and Indiana University. She 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 produced in partnership with Topic and Wondery, and a Creative Consultant on Constance Tsang’s debut feature Blue Sun Palace, which premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week 2024 (Winner, French Touch Prize of the Jury).
She is developing two new projects through UFO’s (Untitled Filmmaker Org) Short Film Lab, an 18-month fellowship hosted by Brooklyn Academy of Music.
emilyjampel@gmail.com
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