Emily Lerer
- Director
- Editorial Department
- Writer
Emily Lerer is a Directors Guild of Canada -nominated and audience award-winning director (Oscar-qualifying Out On Film, Newfest) raised by a special education teacher and synagogue leader in a Midwestern town where 62 foot tall "Touchdown Jesus" loomed by the highway. Her work explores the messiness of femininity thorough dramedies and genre-bending stories.
Selected as "Comcast Rising Voices in Indie Film", her work has screened at Oscar- and Canadian Screen award-qualifying festivals including: Hollyshorts, Cinequest and Fantasia, where she served on the international shorts jury. Her debut feature "Omi" is in post production.
Television credits include: Shameless (Showtime), Twenties (BET), and Pretty Little Liars-Original Sin (HBO).
She is an alumna of Sundance Directing TV, AWD Lab, and AFI Directing course. She is a member of Array Crew, The Television Academy, Women in Film, Film Fatales and the Producers Guild of America.
Selected as "Comcast Rising Voices in Indie Film", her work has screened at Oscar- and Canadian Screen award-qualifying festivals including: Hollyshorts, Cinequest and Fantasia, where she served on the international shorts jury. Her debut feature "Omi" is in post production.
Television credits include: Shameless (Showtime), Twenties (BET), and Pretty Little Liars-Original Sin (HBO).
She is an alumna of Sundance Directing TV, AWD Lab, and AFI Directing course. She is a member of Array Crew, The Television Academy, Women in Film, Film Fatales and the Producers Guild of America.
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