
Emily Ann Hoffman
Acting
Biography
an award winning animator, filmmaker, and artist. She has written and directed three short films thus far, Nevada (2017), Ok, Call Me Back (2016), and The Emily & Ariel Show (2015) which have all screened at Academy Award qualifying festivals and internationally. She spent 2017 as a Sundance Ignite Fellow and recently emerged from an Emerging Artist Fellowship at the Jacob Burns Film Center. She is currently a screenwriting mentee with Sundance’s Feature Film Program. She has a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Known For

Two best friends attend the funeral of a Hebrew school classmate who died by suicide and accidentally damage their friendship beyond repair.
Tahara

In this stop-motion animated comedy, a young couple's romantic weekend getaway is interrupted by a birth control mishap.
Nevada

A romantic comedy about a semi-recovered kleptomaniac who goes home for the holidays and invites an unlikely guest to her family dinner.
Carmen & Moony

Blackheads is a stop motion and 2D animated short film about a woman coping with bad therapy, heartbreak, and blackheads. Told through a dreamy, winding, narrative of autobiographical fiction, Blackheads follows a young woman through a morning spent recounting — and attempting to internally reconcile — heartbreak.
Blackheads

A wandering horse leads to a wandering mind through the extraterrestrial beauty of New Mexico. An experimental microfilm made while an artist-in-residence at The Parador, Santa Fe. Animation experiments including oil pastel palimpsest, replacement animation, compositing, and stop motion, contained within a diorama inspired by the many silly horses of New Mexico.
Wandering Horse

A millennial woman and a female bed bug form an unlikely bond while contending with toxic masculinity.
Bug Bite

Craving companionship, a woman leaves a voicemail late at night. Objects take on new meaning in a lush world of gendered icons.
Ok, Call Me Back

As her storied and rebellious Congressman husband enters his final years, civil rights activist Helen H. McCloskey reflects on their unusual decades-long relationship, the pressure of living in the public eye, and what the two of them had to leave behind to make it work.
Helen and the Bear

The unique world of 2 twenty-somethings with nothing to do on a Friday night.