Emily Hagins

Emily Hagins (born October 27, 1992), was the producer, writer, editor, and director of the 2006 independent feature film, "Pathogen." She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and moved to Austin, Texas in 1993. She is the first teenage girl in the United States to direct a feature-length film. [cite book |last= Kearney |first= Mary Celeste |title= Girls Make Media |publisher= Routledge Taylor and Francis Group |year= 2006 |isbn= 0-415-97278-7 ] She always had a keen interest in movies, and by second grade had earned the nickname, "The movie girl". Not long after reading J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit", she saw Peter Jackson's "" and was inspired to make her own movies. She made 8 short films including "It's a Dog's Life" and a documentary about an independent film, CrazyInsane Productions' "Organic". At age 10 her short-films had drawn the interest of Harry Knowles, a critic with Ain't It Cool News. He shared her short, "Buddie vs. The Barbies I" with director Cameron Crowe who found it "really funny".Citation| last =Ford| first =Lauren Smith| title =Spotlight:Talent Zombie Girl| journal =TeenVogue.com| pages =60–62| date =October 2006| year =2006| url =http://www.teenvogue.com/] At Butt-numb-a-thon 5 she saw her first zombie film, "UNDEAD" which inspired her to expand her repertoire. By May 2004, she finished the screenplay for "Pathogen", a feature-length zombie film. In August 2005, she won a Texas Filmmakers Production Fund grant to finish post production work on the film. [cite web| title =Emily Hagins| publisher =IMDB| url =http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2035204/| accessdate = 2007-06-28] She finished the film which premiered at the Alamo Drafthouse [Citation| last =INGMAN| first =MARRIT| title =The Latest From Z Zeitgeist| newspaper =Austin Chronicle| year =2006| date =JUNE 30, 2006] [cite web| last =DeFore| first =John| title =What did you do at 13? Austin girl made movie | work =Austin American-Statesman| publisher =Cox Texas Newspapers | date =2006-03-24| url =http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AASB&p_theme=aasb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=113016840152A368&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM | accessdate = 2007-06-28] and the publicity persuaded organizers to name her the youngest-ever guest-of-honor at CONvergence 2007 in Bloomington, Minnesota. [cite web| title =CONvergence 2007 - Creature Feature | publisher =CONvergence| date =2007| url =http://www.convergence-con.org/guests/2007emilyhagins.php| accessdate =2007-06-28] Vacdoomed Productions is working on a documentary about Hagins, "Zombie Girl: The Movie" profiling her production of "Pathogen". [cite web| title =Zombie Girl: The Movie| url =http://www.bobbbob.com/ZombieGirl/zpress.html| accessdate = 2007-07-09]

Hagins' second feature-length film, "The Retelling", is a supernatural murder-mystery and is scheduled to be filmed in the summer of 2008. [cite web| title = "The Retelling"| publisher = Cheesy Nuggets Productions| url = http://www.cheesynuggets.com/TRwt.html| accessdate =2008-06-24]

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