Emily Harrold (Orangeburg, SC), Director/Producer, is a documentary filmmaker whose films have screened at Tribeca, DOCNYC and Telluride. Her short film MELTDOWN IN DIXIE has garnered many awards including a 2022 DuPont Columbia Finalist designation and a 2022 Silver Telly Award. Her feature directing debut WHILE I BREATHE I HOPE won the documentary Audience Award at the 2018 New Orleans Film Festival, premiered on WORLD Channel's AfroPop series in 2019, and won a 2020 Southeast Region Emmy. Her feature producing debut MONKEY BUSINESS premiered at the 2017 LA Film Festival and won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2017 Nantucket Film Festival. While in Residence, Harrold will work on her feature documentary film about South Carolina's Sister Senators. Spanning over three years, the film follows the only five women of the South Carolina State Senate as they work together across party lines to fight for women's rights.