EMMA DAVIE, Documentary Maker, Programme Director Of Postgraduate Documentary At Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Emma Davie is a documentary maker, and lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art where she currently runs the postgraduate course in documentary film. She is also a part of Scottish Documentary Institute which is based there.

She has made a wide variety of documentaries for national and international Broadcasters. Davie’s recent work was “Becoming Animal”, co-directed with Swiss Canadian Peter Mettler featuring the eco-philosopher David Abram. It was nominated for Best documentary at CPH Dox, Edinburgh Film Festival, Docs Against Gravity and many more. Her previous feature documentary “I am Breathing” was co-directed with fiction filmmaker Morag MacKinnon. It won a Scottish BAFTA for Best Director. Other previous works include art documentary “What Age Can you Start Being an Artist?” for Channel 4 and one hour film for BBC “Gigha: Buying Our Island” and “Flight”, which was a co-production with Canada. She also takes up experimental projects such as “71˚N”, a co-production with Norway.

Davie also programmed documentaries for the Edinburgh Film Festival, taught at the European Film College and has mentored and collaborated with many filmmakers internationally and served as a jury member on festivals including, most recently, IDFA.