Emily Harris
Directing
Biography
Emily Harris is a British award-winning visual storyteller spanning film, theatre, exhibition, and installation. Her work has been shown at major film festivals and museums worldwide including Tribeca, Berlinale, Camerimage, the V&A Museum, Barbican, Visionary Art Museum, Art Brut Museum Lausanne and the Prague Quadrennial. She has degrees from the Glasgow School of Art , The London Film School and the National Film and Television School. She is a Berlinale Talent Alumna and a full voting member of BAFTA.
Known For
Vida and Arthur come from vastly different backgrounds. Sensitive and touching, sometimes quirky and tragic, always uncompromisingly truthful, a fresh look how conflicting family ties challenge love in a modern day Romeo and Juliet tale.
Love Is Thicker Than Water
In 19th-century Styria, isolated teen Lara's quiet life is upended by the arrival of mysterious, beautiful Carmilla, a female vampire with whom she develops an intense, homoerotic bond. As Lara's life slowly drains, themes of forbidden desire, identity, and the supernatural are explored, culminating in Lara's discovery of Carmilla's vampiric nature and a confrontation with her ancient lineage.