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Emily Carmichael is the next great writer-director of the kind of movies I love. Her ability to find warmth and humanity in genre storytelling is a superpower in itself.”
what we are seeing here is the emergence of a unique voice in american cinema; a new, great, fantasy comedienne.
…brings awkward perfection to a tenuous, star cross’d love while treating their courtship as both realistic and epic. A clever blend of rudeness and romance.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2012 The Ghost and Us: Showing, Not Telling Emily Carmichael’s horror comedy short film, The Ghost and Us, provides an excellent working example of the old screenwriting rule, Show, Don’t Tell. In the film, Laura (Maria Dizzia), is newly married to a man she…
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EMILY CARMICHAEL INTERVIEW May 18 | Author: Mike Plante To date, Emily Carmichael’s films, plays and cartoons have included one jealous ghost, six witches, and two imaginary mud people. She’s been awarded $70,075 in writing prizes and scholarships, $60,000 of which she declined in order to…
“In an aesthetic reminiscent of the original Legend of Zelda, Carmichael explores the existential crises of two 8-bit warriors on an unexplained quest. Beyond that, I can’t possibly give a better explanation of the film than the terribly talented young filmmaker does on her web…
Source: A Two-Week ‘Stopover’ in the Loeb Ex | News | The Harvard Crimson
HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES ‘Is this a puppet which I see before me?’: Handmade characters bring pathos, hilarity to ‘Macbeth’ By Beth Potier Gazette Staff Staff photos by Kris Snibbe Just a few hours before showtime, Macbeth was undergoing some last-minute plastic surgery. “We realized he…
“Seth MacFarlane is the 26-year-old creator and executive producer of Fox’s animated TV show Family Guy. It’s the story of the Griffen Family–two parents, two teens, a cynical dog and a mutant baby who wants to get rid of them all. Seth looked at some…
“There are a number of quite moving essays in this collection. The best is by 15-year-old Emily Carmichael.”
GUESTS: SARA SHANDLER Editor, Ophelia Speaks (Harper Perennial l999) Freshman at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. EMILY CARMICHAEL Contributor to Ophelia Speaks (wrote “Fight Girl-Power”) Junior at Stuyvesant High School in New York City SHAKIRA VILLANUEAVA Contributor to Ophelia Speaks (wrote “A Silent Rush to Hope”) Freshman at Rollins College in…