About

EMILY STRONG is an award winning documentary filmmaker and Emmy-nominated location sound mixer committed to collaborating on authentic stories from diverse perspectives that incite civil discourse, connectivity, and express humanity in an artful way. She is especially drawn to projects with psychological, cultural connection through food, and immigration pattern focuses.

She produced Keep Moving Forward (Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Official Selection) and A Letter For Sang-Ah (CAAMFest Loni Ding Award for Social Justice).

Emily was selected as a DOC NYC 40 Under 40 honoree in 2020 and is currently finishing her directing debut, Tasting Heritage, with funding support from the NYC Women's Fund for Media by the City of New York Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME), the NYC Artist Corps Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), and the Kartemquin Films Zhao-Chen Family AAPI Voices Fund. She is currently directing The Grocery List Show, a five-part ITVS and CAAM funded digital documentary series for PBS about cultural grocery stores, hosted by Chef Chrissy Camba, premiering in 2025.

An affinity for listening and learning has provided her opportunities to work as a sound recorder on notable documentary, journalistic, and documentary-style branded content. In 2024 she was nominated for an Emmy for "Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Nonfiction Program" on Steve! (Martin) A Documentary In 2 Pieces on Apple TV+ and in 2022, she was presented the “Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing” award from the Cinema Audio Society for her work on Academy Award winning documentary, Summer of Soul (dir. by Questlove | prod. Joseph Patel, Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award 2021, Hulu). Some of her client collaborations include: Attica (Academy Award nominee 2022), Netflix’s Taylor Swift: Miss Americana (Sundance 2019), Conan O’Brien’s Conan Must Go (HBOMax), The New York Times, The Food Network, Disney +, BBC, The New Yorker, Nike, ESPN, Showtime, Chanel, Vanity Fair Magazine, PBS, Kartemquin Films, Zero Point Zero, and Firelight Films. Please email emilyMstrong@gmail.com for any additional information.