EMILY

FRANCES

A person with short blonde hair wearing a light blue t-shirt with a mountain scene, sitting against a colorful backdrop with shades of brown and purple.

Emily is an award winning writer and director with a background in visual art and theater. She is a Gotham Fellow, a Bend Basecamp scholarship recipient, a two-time finalist for the New Voices grant, a semi-finalist for the Nicholl Fellowship, and has placed in the Austin Screenwriting competition multiple times. Her short films IN THE FLESH (2025), THE AGENT (2022) and SPARE PARTS (2019) have screened at Oscar qualifying festivals across the continent including Austin, Atlanta, NewFest, Bend, Rhode Island, Inside Out, HollyShorts and many more, and been named Vimeo Staff Picks. She began her career as a designer, collaborating with acclaimed filmmakers including Gaspar Noé, and companies like Google, Vogue, Netflix, and The National Council for Mental Wellbeing. She is also a trained actor, appearing in over 15 film and television titles and off-Broadway theater.

Select Projects

In The Flesh (16 min)

writer/director/producer

A woman standing in a kitchen, preparing a large piece of raw meat on a wooden cutting board. The scene has warm lighting and the words 'In the Flesh' overlaid.

A young woman standing in front of a room, speaking or singing with her hands on her chest, with the words 'THE AGENT' in large yellow letters above her. Two chairs are visible, one occupied by a person with dark hair seen from behind and another empty. There is a bulletin board, an intercom, and posters on the wall. The setting appears to be an office or meeting room, with a banner indicating a film festival.

The Agent (12 min)

writer/director/editor

A woman with red hair looks at a man lying on the bed, with her hands on his chest, in a dimly lit room.

Spare Parts (17 min)

witer/director/

actor/editor

Animation Reel

illustrator/animator