Biography

Writer/Director Emily Bennett is an Academy recognized screenwriter and award-winning director. Her films Blood Shine, Alone With You, Accidental Stars, LVRS and Bed have screened at festivals such as Sitges, FrightFest, Fantastic Fest, Brooklyn Horror, Telluride Horror, Film Quest, BIFAN, Salem Horror and Fantasia. Her screenplay ACHE placed quarter finalist in the Academy Nicholl Fellowship (2020).

Her debut feature Alone With You premiered at Fantastic Fest and won a 2023 Fangoria Chainsaw Award. The film was produced by Andrew Corkin and actor Theo James (Martha Marcy May Marlene, We Are What We Are).

Her second horror/thriller feature Blood Shine explores the tension between the psychosexual profane and the religious sublime. The film was produced by Alexander Schepsman (Martha Marcy May Marlene, Bluebird) and played in competition at the 2025 Sitges Film Festival in Spain, the world's largest horror film festival. Bennett is represented by Antonio D'Intino at Spectrevision.
- IMDb mini biography by: Representation