Emma D. Miller

Emma D. Miller is a Gotham Award-nominated filmmaker whose work explores the strange and beautiful messiness of being human. Her projects have been supported by Sundance Institute, Ford Foundation, Field of Vision, Impact Partners, and Anonymous Content, among others, and have been selected by festivals including Venice, Toronto, and SXSW. She is the producer of Elizabeth Lo’s MISTRESS DISPELLER, winner of a dozen festival awards and nominated for three Cinema Eye Honors, as well as Iliana Sosa’s SXSW award-winning WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND (ARRAY Releasing/Netflix), a New York Times “Critic’s Pick.” She is also the co-producer of an upcoming feature for National Geographic Documentary Films and the director of the short documentary THE SCHOOL OF CANINE MASSAGE, which premiered at SXSW 2024 and was acquired by Kanopy. As development executive at Concordia Studio, she worked on Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning films that premiered at Sundance, Tribeca, and Telluride, including TIME, BOYS STATE, and PROCESSION. Other credits include Showtime’s COUPLES THERAPY, the Oscar-nominated short KNIFE SKILLS (The New Yorker), and the Oscar-shortlisted, Sundance award-winning feature UNREST (Independent Lens/Netflix). Named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” and one of DOC NYC’s “40 Under 40,” Emma was a 2023 Sundance Producers Fellow and 2024 JFI Filmmaker in Residence.