Emily Friedman is a filmmaker and designer based in Brooklyn, NY. She’s a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Film & TV Production and minors in Business of Entertainment and Art History. 

Her work has been featured in BAFTA-qualifying Aesthetica Film Festival, Academy Award-qualifying HollyShorts, NOWNESS Asia, image+nation Montreal, the Berlin Music Video Awards, NYWIFT’s Annual Creative Showcase, Film Shortage, and Beyond the Short. 

She’s currently directing her debut feature Kings and Things, a documentary highlighting the underrepresented world of drag kings and nonbinary burlesque performers. It received the 2024 DGNL Gives Back Pride production grant and is being executive produced by Murray Hill.

Her narrative film Goldstar was one of five feature projects to be selected for Toronto’s 2024 Inside Out Finance Forum, and her script The Pictures was a quarterfinalist in Shore Script’s 2023 Hour-Long TV Pilot Competition.

She’s also the founder of production and development company happytobehere.

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