about me.

Émilie Martel is a director, writer and a producer. While living between Ecuador and New York, she spent years directing short documentary content for organizations worldwide, such as The Guardian, Great Big Story, Univision and more. Her projects have received support from Hot Docs Cross Current Funds (‘19), the Canadian Council for the Arts (‘19) and the Ontario Council for the Arts (‘20, ‘21). She has directed and produced two seasons of the animated documentary called The Métis (19 episodes of 13 minutes, TFO), co-wrote and directed a non-scripted tween cooking series called Bouchée du monde (20 episodes of 13 minutes, TFO), directed several episodes of the documentary series of 180 (5 of 26 minutes, TVA)  and is currently co-writing and co-directing a fictional teen series about girls in a hockey league (8 of 13 minutes, TFO).

Her documentaries have played in festivals around the world including Amdocs 2019 in California, One Word Film Festival 2019 in Ottawa, Vancouver Latin American Film Festival and the Ecuadorian film festival Línea Imaginaria in Madrid. Émilie received the 2018 Canadian Women Artists’ Award from New York’s NYSCA and is a beneficiary of the Banff Diversity of Voices Initiative (‘18, ‘19, ‘20). In 2019, she was a recipient of the Youth Media Alliance’s Thérèse-Pinho Scholarship.

Émilie is also the owner of the production company Kannon Films.

She is comfortable in working English, French and Spanish.