Emily Yue is a filmmaker and film editor from the New England area. Currently, Emily is editing a feature documentary about punks in a forest and directing their first feature about a queer feminist wrestling league. Emily is a Sundance Institute Asian American Fellow and a Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellow, and was recently a Sundance Contributing Editor Fellow.
As an editor, Emily works across documentary and fiction and is a member of the Asian American Documentary Network, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, the Alliance of Documentary Editors, and the Motion Picture Editors Guild. Some of Emily's recent post-production credits include Spermworld (TrueFalse/FX-Hulu), How to Blow Up a Pipeline (TIFF/NEON), and The Rescue (TIFF/NatGeo).
In addition to editing, Emily likes to go outside sometimes (!) and make no-frills verité documentaries with friends. Inquire within!
P.S. There are multiple Emily Yues out here making art — hope you find the one you’re looking for ✌️
Selected Filmography
FEATURES
Untitled Feature Documentary - TBA
Role: Editor
Project support: Ford JustFilms
BLOWW (w/t) - TBA
Role: Director/Producer/Editor
Project support:
The Center for Independent Documentary
DocShop
Harvardwood LGBTQIA+ Fellowship
Spermworld - 2024 - True/False - FX - Hulu
(dir. Lance Oppenheim, editor Daniel Garber)
Role: Co-Editor
Asian Persuasion - 2023 - SoHo International Film Festival
(dir. Jhett Tolentino, editor Aacharee Ungsriwong)
Role: Assistant and Additional Editor
How to Blow Up a Pipeline - 2022 - TIFF - NEON
(dir. Daniel Goldhaber, editor Daniel Garber)
Role: Assistant Editor, Post Production Supervisor
First award speech shoutout!
The Rescue - 2021 - TIFF - NatGeo
(dir. Chai E. Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, editor Bob Eisenhardt)
Role: Post Assistant
SHORTS
Untitled Short - 2025
(2024, Narrative, 10 min) - Editor
Amidst All This Beauty - 2024 Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival
(2024, Documentary, 10 min) - Editor
(2020, Documentary, 15min) - Director, Editor
An older Chinese American couple lives and grows their version of the good life in the Cleveland suburbs.
Official Selection: Short. Sweet. Film Fest 2021 (Best Local Film Award), The TIDE Film Festival 2020
(2020, Documentary, 20min) - Co-Cinematographer
An insightful, unsentimental look into a blind woman’s world and her compelling, genuine love of movement.
Official Selection: Dance on Camera Festival 2020, Seize the Film 2020,
Lady Filmmakers 2020, Together! Disability Film Festival 2020
(2019, Documentary, 19min, 16mm) - Co-filmmaker
The inner workings of the Boston League of Wicked Wrestlers, a radical queer wrestling group,
as they continue to smash the patriarchy with a hammer.
(2019, Documentary, 10min, 16mm) - Co-filmmaker
A portrait of a fitness trainer, husband, and father to a toddler.
(2019, Documentary, 19min) - Director, Editor
New Haven youth make a super 8mm film about the city they live in.
Official Selection: New Haven Documentary Film Festival 2020
(2019, Documentary, 25min, 8mm) - Co-filmmaker
A collaborative film that envisions a summer day in the life of New Haven.
Official Selection: New Haven Documentary Film Festival 2020
(2018, Theatre Video Projections, 5min) - Video Director, Editor
A series of video projections that opened and closed Shelley M. Hobbs' play A Good Death,
Directed by Alexandra Smith, with Also Known As Theatre