Filmmaker’s Biography

Emelie Mahdavian is an Emmy, Peabody, and Sundance Award-winning filmmaker who was selected for DOCNYC’s 2020 “40 Under 40” list. Her nonfiction feature BITTERBRUSH screened at Telluride Film Festival, Doc Fortnight at the MoMA, and was released theatrically by Magnolia Pictures in June 2022. She produced, wrote, and edited MIDNIGHT TRAVELER, which won numerous international prizes and was nominated for a Gotham Award for Best Documentary. She is currently working on two documentary features: one about the creative process of Alonzo King Lines Ballet and another, titled Planet A, on a woman-led final expedition to Antarctica's “doomsday glacier.”