Will also wrangle ponies for an extra fee
Emilie Simonini is a Documentary Producer based in New York City.
She began her career working in freelance production on series including The Trade (Showtime/Our Time Projects), American Pickers (History/Cineflix), Mind/Trip (Roku/Loki Films), amongst others. In 2022, she served as Associate Producer for the feature documentary, Endangered (HBO/Loki Films) about press freedom under attack globally.
Since 2021, Emilie has pivoted her focus to documentary development. She previously worked as a Development Producer at Loki Films, Development Manager at Part2 Pictures, and is currently Manager of Non-Scripted & Documentary at Fifth Season.
Emilie’s favorite stories have to do with family secrets, immigration, weird nooks and crannies of the internet, witchcraft and the occult, small town scandals, subcultures, queer narratives, and women’s history. Emilie is a proud Rhode Islander and considers New England her true home. She lives in Astoria, Queens with her husband and cat/daughters.
Tribeca 2023 for “Endangered”
Contact
emiliesimonini(at)gmail.com
Sundance 2020 for “The Trade” S2
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behind the scenes
Aside from her work as a producer, Emilie is a fine artist specializing in pen and ink drawings and painting. You can find more of her artwork available here.
She is also an intuitive tarot reader, for more information on her tarot practice, please visit her Instagram, @sea___witch. More information about booking tarot sessions coming soon!