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Date

Saturday, May 17, 2025

Time

12:15 PM

Theater

THEATER 2

Program

REAL FRAMES

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About the Director

Emily Sheskin is an award winning director whose work has been featured in numerous publications such as (but not limited to) The New York Times, National Geographic, and The Atlantic. She was also named one of the 10 groundbreaking women in film to watch in 2017 by Vimeo.

Most recently, her feature film on Jesselyn Silva (previously an award winning short and NYTimes OpDoc) premiered in competition at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. From there it has gone on to win awards at Fargo (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Documentary) and Atlanta (Jury Award - Special Mention Documentary Feature).

She holds a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and is a member of New York Women in Film & Television, and IFP.


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