Emily Kunstler

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 that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. The film is a co-production of the Independent Television Service (ITVS) and will air on the award-winning PBS series P.O.V. in 2010. The film was an official selection of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. It also received a 2008 grant from the Foundation for Jewish Culture's Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film. Arthouse Films released the film theatrically in North America in November 2009, to considerable critical acclaim. [1]

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 and Best New Documentary Filmmaker(s) Award at Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival(2009).

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