Emily Reach White
- Producer
- Writer
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Award-winning indie producer Emily Reach White first trained as a writer, reader, and teacher of great literature. This informs her work in film, as she is known for movies rooted in craft, suffused with love, and released expectantly, joyfully -- a surprise gift her audience wasn’t expecting.
Most often working with her producing partner and husband, writer-director Chris White, Emily makes her home in South Carolina and her movies wherever story and budget demand. An inveterate host, she sees every project as a table set for an artistic feast; a conviction that attracts ambitious artistic partners.
White has consistently secured the trust of all project stakeholders - artistic, financial, distribution - while delivering audience-pleasing results, spanning genres, budget-levels, and finance complexity.
White’s commercial breakthrough came with 2021’s coming-of-age music-comedy Electric Jesus (Judd Nelson, Brian Baumgartner). Driven by her grit and determination, Electric Jesus screened at more than 40 film festivals, won distribution with The Orchard/1099, and signed a record deal with Joyful Noise Recordings - all during the peak of a global pandemic.
It is with this same commitment to radical hospitality, fiscal responsibility, and deep, abiding belief in the transformative power of story, that White’s Studio Fifteen brings out three directorial debut features in 2026: the female led, MENA-driven romcom Same Same But Different (dir. Lauren Noll, premiering at SXSW), hillbilly heist comedy Money By Sundown (dir. Geoffrey Gunn), and retro sci-fi adventure Adventures In Zeroworld: Shadow of Doom (dir. Alan Ray).
Next for Emily and Chris: screwball music-comedy So Long Farewell (selected, SC Film’s Long Lens development program) and the screen adaptation of Tara Isabella Burton’s big city cabaret theatre thriller, Here In Avalon.
Most often working with her producing partner and husband, writer-director Chris White, Emily makes her home in South Carolina and her movies wherever story and budget demand. An inveterate host, she sees every project as a table set for an artistic feast; a conviction that attracts ambitious artistic partners.
White has consistently secured the trust of all project stakeholders - artistic, financial, distribution - while delivering audience-pleasing results, spanning genres, budget-levels, and finance complexity.
White’s commercial breakthrough came with 2021’s coming-of-age music-comedy Electric Jesus (Judd Nelson, Brian Baumgartner). Driven by her grit and determination, Electric Jesus screened at more than 40 film festivals, won distribution with The Orchard/1099, and signed a record deal with Joyful Noise Recordings - all during the peak of a global pandemic.
It is with this same commitment to radical hospitality, fiscal responsibility, and deep, abiding belief in the transformative power of story, that White’s Studio Fifteen brings out three directorial debut features in 2026: the female led, MENA-driven romcom Same Same But Different (dir. Lauren Noll, premiering at SXSW), hillbilly heist comedy Money By Sundown (dir. Geoffrey Gunn), and retro sci-fi adventure Adventures In Zeroworld: Shadow of Doom (dir. Alan Ray).
Next for Emily and Chris: screwball music-comedy So Long Farewell (selected, SC Film’s Long Lens development program) and the screen adaptation of Tara Isabella Burton’s big city cabaret theatre thriller, Here In Avalon.
