
Emily May Jampel is a director and creative consultant 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 produced in partnership with Topic and Wondery, 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).
Emily was a 2023 Recipient of NewFest’s New Voices Filmmaker Grant and was listed on the 2024 Dazed100. She is currently developing two new projects with the UFO (Untitled Filmmaker Org) Short Film Lab, an 18-month fellowship hosted at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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