Emma is a Canadian filmmaker and 2017 graduate of NYU. Her short, Shiva Baby, premiered at SXSW in 2018. The feature adaptation, starring Rachel Sennott, Polly Draper, Dianna Agron, Molly Gordon, Fred Melamed and Danny Deferrari, was selected to screen at SXSW, Toronto International Film Festival, and OutFest LA, where it won Best US Screenwriting.

In 2020, she was named one of Variety‘s 10 Screenwriters to Watch and one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film.