Emily Yue is a filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. Emily works mostly as an emerging editor on documentary and narrative films and is a member of the Asian American Documentary Network, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, the Alliance of Documentary Editors, and the Editors Guild. They are currently editing an upcoming feature documentary, directing their first feature documentary, are a 2024 Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellow, and recently were a 2023 Sundance Contributing Editor Fellow. 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).
P.S. I am but one of many Emily Yues out here - hope you find the one you're looking for!
Selected Filmography
FEATURES
Untitled Feature Documentary - TBA
Role: Editor
BLOWW (w/t) - TBA
Role: Director/Producer/Editor
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