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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
Articles
- Emily Kunstler on Democracy Now! when Ryan Matthews was freed from death row
- Emily Kunstler on Democracy Now! when The Central Park Jogger Case convictions were overturned
- Emily and Sarah Kunstler in New Orleans' Weekly Gambit
- A Pattern of Exclusion: The Trial of Thomas Miller-El on Democracy Now!
- Interview with Emily and Sarah Kunstler in Gothamist web magazine about Getting Through to the President
- New York Daily News article about Getting Through to the President
- WBAI interview with Emily Kunstler about Texas death row prisoner Thomas J Miller-El
- New York Daily News article from 1998
- New York Times article from 1993
- Reuters Article on L'Oreal "Women of Worth" Award
External links
- Off Center Media Page
- IMDB Page
- Disturbing The Universe Sundance Page
- Disturbing The Universe ITVS page
- Getting Through to the President on Channel 13/WNET's Reel New York Series
- Getting Through to the President on the Sundance Channel
- Getting Through to the President on the Current TV
- Off Center Media's Films on Blip TV
- Museum of Modern Art Screening