Writer/Director

Emily Ray Reese is a queer filmmaker from the mountains of New Mexico. Her filmmaking focuses on telling the often unseen stories of rural America, not depicted as the other but rather from an insider perspective. Visually she works to create the whimsical magic she found as a child playing alone in the vast wilderness while also addressing the dark realities of poverty, addiction, abuse, betrayal, and death. Reese attended NYU’s graduate film program. Her script ‘Baby Lu’ participated in the 2012 IFP Emerging Narrative Lab and earned Reese the 2013 NYFA Geri Asher Screenwriting Fellowship. Reese was a grant recipient of the 2020 Stowe Story Lab for her feature screenplay ‘Guadalupe Mountain’ and was chosen to participate in Stowe Story Labs Launch advanced development program as well as Tribeca’s 2021 Writing in Unreal Program. ‘Guadalupe Mountain’ was most recently selected to participate in the 2023 cohort of the From Script to PreProduction lab, and was a finalist for the Athena Writing Lab, as well as the Lynn Sheldon of a Certain Age Grant.

emilyrayreese.com

emilyrayreese@gmail.com