Emily Hagins


Emily Hagins is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker.

Biography

Emily Hagins made her first feature at the age of 12 in her hometown of Austin, Texas – a zombie movie called Pathogen. The documentary ' chronicled her process from start to finish. Hagins made her second feature, The Retelling, at the age of 14. At 17, she wrote and directed her third feature, My Sucky Teen Romance, which film premiered at SXSW and was distributed by Dark Sky Films.
Her fourth feature, Grow Up, Tony Phillips, also premiered at SXSW and was released on DVD/VOD in 2014. She also wrote and directed the segment "Touch" for Chiller's horror anthology '. Her most recent feature film, a teen heist movie titled Coin Heist, is based on a young adult novel of the same name and was released as a Netflix Original Film in January 2017. She also completed the six-part digital series Hold to Your Best Self with Adaptive Studios, which premiered at SXSW 2018.

Filmography