About


emehawe@gmail.com

sydney, australia


Emily is a Maori-English Australian filmmaker. Hawe like café.

Emily is a screenwriter and director from Darwin currently based in Sydney, Australia. She works primarily as a freelance on-set director’s assistant and has extensive experience in project development, production support, document design, and research. Emily is a creative collaborator, storyteller, and general busybody.

As a freelancer she creates high-quality treatments and bibles for TV commercials, film, and television. Emily is highly experienced in visual research and layout design.

Here’s her letterboxd. She loves detail-oriented filmmaking (Wes Anderson, David Fincher), ‘It Was Always You’ stories (Doctor Sleep), poetic epics (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Days of HeavenLawrence of Arabia, Beau Travail), heroines (Citizen Ruth, Diabolique, Last Days of Disco) and horrors (The Exorcist, Donald Pleasance, Mike Flanagan, and John Carpenter). If you’ve read this far - thank you! Here’s a gold star for your efforts *


SELECTED RESUME

2022-24 ~ NARRATIVE

Freelance Designer, Curio Pictures - numerous

Wolf Like Me, Made Up Stories - Abe Forsythe

strife, Made Up Stories - Loretta Cosgrove

producer, Room Service Films

2020-24 ~ COMMERCIAL

Directors Assistant - Matt McCaughey

Directors Assistant - Steve Unltd.

Directors Assistant - Raskols

Directors Assistant - Gemma Lee

2015/19

Bachelor of Arts (Film Studies/English studies) university of sydney

2018

Desert Dash - Script Editor, Director Assistant, Associate Producer - Prize $USD20K

2015/19

Directors Assistant - Gracie Otto, Ralf Films

 
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Achievements

2021

Writers Trainee - Thor: Love and Thunder

2020

FINALIST Animal Logic LA Producer Placement

2019

Canon Filmmakers FunD recipient $AUD15,000

2018

Desert Dash - Soho House ‘Script House’ Winner - $USD20K

2018

Directors attachment - Mr inbetween