Emma Davie is a filmmaker and former Professor of Documentary Film at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Her latest feature documentary The Oil Machine (BBC 2022), has toured extensively provoking debate and discussion with over 350 screenings across 6 continents from Texas to Norway to the Houses of Parliament. Previous features include Becoming Animal (2018), co-directed with Peter Mettler (nominated for Best Documentary at CPH DOX, EIFF and many more) and I Am Breathing, (2012 Film 4) co-directed with Morag MacKinnon (winner of Scottish BAFTA for Best Director, nominated for Best Documentary at IDFA). She speaks or advises on many international workshops including DocEdge Kolkata, Dhaka Doklab, Below Zero and Ex Oriente. She is a member of the Academy and has been on juries including IDFA, Visions du Reel, BAFTA and Docudays Ukraine. She advises on international documentaries including The Brink of Dreams (2024) by Nada Riyadh and Ayman El Amir, which won the Golden Eye Documentary Prize at the 77th Cannes Film Festiva
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