Emily Kunstler

Emily Kunstler (born 1978) is an activist and a documentary filmmaker. Kunstler graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Film and Video in 2000. She previously attended Vassar College, in Poughkeepsie, NY. Emily worked as a video producer for Democracy Now!, an independent national television and radio news program that broadcasts on the Pacifica Radio Network and on public access and satellite television. She was a studio art fellow with the [http://www.whitney.org/www/programs/isp.jsp Independent Study Program] of the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2004. Emily was an associate producer on Alison Maclean’s [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390365/ Persons of Interest] (Sundance, 2004).

In 1999 Emily Kunstler co-founded [http://www.off-center.com Off Center Media] with her sister Sarah Kunstler. Off Center is a documentary production company that exposes injustice in the criminal justice system through the creation and circulation of media. At Off Center Media, Emily has produced, directed and edited a number of short documentaries, including Tulia, Texas: Scenes from the Drug War (2003), which won Best Documentary Short at the Woodstock Film Festival, and was instrumental in winning exoneration for 35 wrongfully-convicted people in the small town of Tulia, Texas, and Getting Through to the President (2004), which has aired on the Sundance Channel, Current TV, and Channel Thirteen/WNET.

Emily Kunstler is the daughter of left-wing radical lawyers William Kunstler and Margaret Ratner Kunstler and is currently producing a documentary about her father entitled .

Articles

* [http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/12/1415250 Emily Kunstler on "Democracy Now!" when Ryan Matthews was freed from death row]
* [http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0314216&mode=thread&tid=5 Emily Kunstler on "Democracy Now!" when The Central Park Jogger Case convictions were overturned]
* [http://www.ferris.edu/news/jimcrow/links/newslist/gambit.htm Emily and Sarah Kunstler in New Orleans' "Weekly Gambit"]
* [http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0252225 "A Pattern of Exclusion: The Trial of Thomas Miller-El" on "Democracy Now!"]
* [http://gothamist.com/2004/10/27/getting_through_to_the_president.php Interview with Emily and Sarah Kunstler in "Gothamist" web magazine about "Getting Through to the President"]
* [http://www.documentarycampaign.org/president/nydn.html "New York Daily News" article about "Getting Through to the President"]
* [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/click/movie-1107076/reviews.php?rid=299393 WBAI interview with Emily Kunstler about Texas death row prisoner Thomas J Miller-El]
* [http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/1998/05/07/1998-05-07_rockefeller_s_legacy_has_mom.html "New York Daily News" article from 1998]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE6D9163AF93BA15750C0A965958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=3 "New York Times" article from 1993]

External links

* [http://www.off-center.com Off Center Media Page]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2527562/ IMDB Page]
* [http://www.itvs.org/shows/ataglance.php?showID=7761 "Disturbing The Universe" ITVS page]
* [http://www.thirteen.org/reelny/previous_seasons/reelnewyork11/film_w2_f1.html "Getting Through to the President" on Channel 13/WNET's Reel New York Series]
* [http://www.sundancechannel.com/films/500010307 "Getting Through to the President" on the Sundance Channel]
* [http://currenttv.com/pods/rant/PD03250 "Getting Through to the President" on the Current TV]
* [http://offcentermedia.blip.tv/ Off Center Media's Films on Blip TV]
* [http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/film/2006/Reel_New_York.html Museum of Modern Art Screening]