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Emilio Miguel Torres

Emilio Miguel Torres

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Biography

Emilio Miguel Torres is an award-winning Puerto Rican-Mexican American filmmaker based in Phoenix, Arizona. An NYU Tisch School of the Arts film school graduate, he has written and directed multiple short films that have screened in over 35 international film festivals, earning honors such as the First Prize Kalborg Award at the New Visions and Voices Film Festival, the Critics' Choice Award at the Sci-On Film Festival, and Best Film at the Apex Film Festival. His debut feature film, The Ladder is a sci-fi, drama film about aging, technology, and family shot in his hometown of Ketchikan, Alaska. This fiercely independent, community-driven project is currently on the festival circuit, with selections at the Fargo Film Festival, Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival, Wyoming International Film Festival, and the OKCine Latino Film Festival, where it won Best First Feature Film and Best Editing. After screening at the Phoenix Film Festival as part of the U.S. Feature Competition, Torres took home the Copper Wing Award for 2025 Arizona Filmmaker of the Year.

Known For

40 Nickels
N/A

Based her grandfather’s boyhood in St. Louis, Yasmin Gorenberg tells a story of the pain passed from refugee parents to their children and the hope that can overcome it. “40 Nickels” captures the image of a generation of immigrants to the United States in the 1920’s and 1930’s and through that spotlights the effects of the 1919 pogroms in Eastern Europe. This is a film about parents and children: how trauma never leaves a family, and how hope and resilience is also passed down. It asks the question: Can a new generation look at the world with wonder rather than fear?

40 Nickels

2021
the fix
8.0

A less than ideal arrangement turns unexpectedly healing when a working, single mother is forced to call her absent father for a last minute babysitting request.

the fix

2023
The Ladder
N/A

In the twilight of his life, an aging Alaskan fisherman must decide between accepting old age or restarting his life with a mysterious new scientific procedure. The original short film that the 2025 feature film is based on.

The Ladder

2022
The Laramie Project
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The true story of Matthew Shepard's murder is told through the eyes of the citizens of Laramie. His death proved to be a catalyst of change for LGBTQIA+ people in our country, but we still need to continue to work on equity issues for many groups of oppressed and marginalized individuals in our country.

The Laramie Project

2020
The Ladder
N/A

In the twilight of his life, an aging Alaskan fisherman contemplates restarting his life with the help of a mysterious scientific procedure.

The Ladder

2025
Mikey
N/A

After a boy gets separated from his mother at a market, he encounters a strange man in the bathroom and experiences something he struggles to understand.

Mikey

2020
Fiber Optics
N/A

A lonely claymation artist struggles with bad connection.

Fiber Optics

2022
Valor & Sacrifice
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Amidst an island-wide labor strike in 1930's Puerto Rico, a passionate politician must make the decision between solidifying his legacy as the first elected governor of the territory or staying true to his morals and cause.

Valor & Sacrifice

2021
Wannabe
N/A

A high school senior feels pressured to lose his virginity while at a party where he finds his crush very drunk.

Wannabe

2019