Emily L. Harrold

Emily Harrold is a documentary filmmaker from Orangeburg, South Carolina. Her films have screened at festivals including the Tribeca Film Festival, DOC NYC and the Telluride Film Festival. Her short film Meltdown In Dixie, a Topic original documentary, won the Academy Qualifying Best Short at the 2021 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. In June 2021, it aired on World Channel's America Reframed series. Harrold produced the PBS American Experience documentary Voice of Freedom about singer Marian Anderson, which premiered in February 2021. Her feature documentary directing debut, While I Breathe, I Hope about politician Bakari Sellers, won the documentary Audience Award at the 2018 New Orleans Film Festival, premiered on WorldChannel's AfroPop series in 2019, and won a 2020 Southeast Region Emmy. Harrold is also part of the team behind Discovery's Tigerland (Sundance 2019) and National Geographic's Ron Howard-directed Rebuilding Paradise (Sundance 2020). Harrold is a member of Film Fatales and the collective The Filmshop. She is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.