Emily Yue is a filmmaker and film editor currently based in Boston. Emily's work is rooted in centering marginalized voices with an intersectional lens, and has been supported by the Sundance Institute, the Points North Institute, and the LEF Foundation. Emily has directed and co-directed several short films, including Good Harvest (2020), A Film About Film in Ten Parts (2020), and BLOWW (2019).
As an editor, Emily works across documentary and fiction and is an alumni of the Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship and the Sundance Contributing Editor Fellowship. Emily is a member of the Asian American Documentary Network, BIPOC Doc Editors, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, and Motion Picture Editors Guild. Some of Emily's recent post-production credits include Spermworld (2024), How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022), and The Rescue (2021).
In addition to editing, Emily likes to go outside sometimes (!) and make no-frills verité documentaries with friends as a sound recordist or cinematographer. 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
A-Doc Allies
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