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Emily Kunstler (born 1978) is an activist and a documentary filmmaker. Kunstler graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Film and Video in 2000. She previously attended Vassar College, in Poughkeepsie, NY. Emily worked as a video producer for Democracy Now!, an independent national television and radio news program that broadcasts on the Pacifica Radio Network and on public access and satellite television. She was a studio art fellow with the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2004. Emily was an associate producer on Alison Maclean’s Persons of Interest (Sundance, 2004).

In 1999 Emily Kunstler co-founded Off Center Media with her sister Sarah Kunstler. Off Center is a documentary production company that exposes injustice in the criminal justice system through the creation and circulation of media. At Off Center Media, Emily has produced, directed and edited a number of short documentaries, including Tulia, Texas: Scenes from the Drug War (2003), which won Best Documentary Short at the Woodstock Film Festival, and was instrumental in winning exoneration for 35 wrongfully-convicted people in the small town of Tulia, Texas, and Getting Through to the President (2004), which has aired on the Sundance Channel, Current TV, and Channel Thirteen/WNET.

Emily Kunstler is the daughter of left-wing radical lawyers William Kunstler and Margaret Ratner Kunstler and she completed a documentary about her father entitled William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe (film) that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009.

Emily Kunstler and her sister Sarah Kunstler were recipients of the L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth "Vision" Award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival

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 In 1999 Emily Kunstler co-founded [http://www.off-center.com Off Center Media] with her sister [[Sarah Kunstler]]. Off Center is a documentary production company that exposes injustice in the criminal justice system through the creation and circulation of media. At Off Center Media, Emily has produced, directed and edited a number of short documentaries, including Tulia, Texas: Scenes from the Drug War (2003), which won Best Documentary Short at the Woodstock Film Festival, and was instrumental in winning exoneration for 35 wrongfully-convicted people in the small town of [[Tulia, Texas]], and Getting Through to the President (2004), which has aired on the [[Sundance Channel]], [[Current TV]], and Channel Thirteen/[[WNET]].
-Emily Kunstler is the daughter of left-wing radical lawyers [[William Kunstler]] and Margaret Ratner Kunstler and she completed a documentary about her father entitled [[William Kunstler: Disturbing the Univeres (film)]] that premiered at the  [http://festival.sundance.org/2009/ Sundance Film Festival] in 2009.
+Emily Kunstler is the daughter of left-wing radical lawyers [[William Kunstler]] and Margaret Ratner Kunstler and she completed a documentary about her father entitled [[William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe (film)]] that premiered at the  [http://festival.sundance.org/2009/ Sundance Film Festival] in 2009.
 Emily Kunstler and her sister [[Sarah Kunstler]] were recipients of the L'Oreal Paris  Women of Worth "Vision" Award at the 2009 [[Sundance Film Festival]]