EMMA FIDEL

Emma Fidel is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and journalist based in New York City. She has worked as a producer on feature documentaries for HBO, Netflix, and Amazon. Before working in film, she was a director/producer at VICE News for four years.

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Emma is the field producer for Raoul Peck's SILVER DOLLAR ROAD (Amazon Studios) and a co-producer of The New York Times' SORRY/NOT SORRY, both set to premiere at TIFF 2023. She was the U.S. field producer for Nanfu Wang's IN THE SAME BREATH (HBO, Sundance 2021, Peabody Award), co-producer for TAKE YOUR PILLS: XANAX (Netflix), and co-producer for ONCE UPON A TIME IN UGANDA (The New York Times Critic's Pick, DOC NYC 2021 Grand Jury Prize Winner). Emma is in post-production on her feature directing debut, QUEEN OF NEW YORK, a comedic documentary about a drag queen running for City Council.

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Emma graduated from Dartmouth College after serving as editor-in-chief of the daily student newspaper, The Dartmouth, and living abroad in Mexico and Peru. She has since produced videos for The New York Times, Vogue, Teen Vogue, Cosmo, and GQ, and has reported for Bloomberg News and the Associated Press.

 

Her favorite animals are alpacas.

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Say hi! emmafidelfilms [at] gmail [dot] com