Emma Seligman is a Canadian screenwriter and film director. She got fame due to her short film Shiva Baby, a comedy film based on bisexuality and cultural conflicts. In 2018, Shiva Baby was premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival, and it won the Best US Screenwriting award in Toronto International Film Festival and OutFest LA. Emma became one of the Filmmaker Mag’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film’s. In 2020, she was named one of Variety’s 10 Screenwriters to Watch. She started contributing to the entertainment industry during her teenage days, she wrote film reviews in The Huffington Post.
Emma Seligman Biography
Emma Seligman was born to her parents on May 3, 1995, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. At a young age, she attended a small art school in her hometown locality. She decided to study liberal arts to peruse graduation and took admitted at the Tisch School of The Arts, New York City. Emma completed her graduation in May 2017 from Stonestreet Studios of the Tisch, where she studied films.
She is a bisexual person who lives in Los Angeles in 2021. She from a Jewish family and was brought up in a Reform Ashkenazi community in Toronto.
Emma has her Bat Mitzvah ceremony (coming-of-age ritual for Jewish girls) during a two-week bat mitzvah trip on Masada in Israel. Her family also enjoys a small party at the hip hotel in downtown Toronto.
Family
The talented young girl Emma was born to parents named father Theodore Seligman and mother Nancy Dennis, she is an entrepreneur.
Her elder sister’s name is Lindsay Seligman.
Emma has a Shitzu-Terrier-Bijon dog named Morty Seligman in her home. She so much loved her dog that, even dedicated a separate Instagram account page to her.
Relationship
Currently, she is not in any relationship with anybody. Their no such rumor about dating that is spreading. Emma is just enjoying her career and work.
Emma Seligman Wiki
| Full Name | Emma Seligman |
| Occupation | Director, Screenwriter |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | NA |
| Birth Place | Canada |
| Residence | United States |
| Age | 24 years |
| Height | 5 feet and 5 inches |
| Weight | NA |
| Education | Tisch School Of The Arts |
| Nationality | Canada |
| Food Diet | Non-Vegetarian |
| @emmmaseligman |
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Emma Seligman Career Timeline
- Emma Seligman started her contribution to this industry during her high school time by writing a film review in The Huffington Post. Then her journalist aunt advice her to write more blogs and ask her to apply to Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for Children, an event organized by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) that centralise teens to review and jury award on family-friendly movies.
- Then she works as a production assistant in the Canadian comedy documentary ‘Lunarcy!’ in 2012. And continues to industry later in 2014 she works as a production intern in the Canadian musical ‘Stage Fright.’
- She kicks start her career in 2017 by making an American short film “Void” and Emma debuted as a director, editor, and writer from this film.
- While her visa is in an active state she remained in New York and works as an intern in the Animal Kingdom production company after completing her graduation for keeping her practical training.
- In 2018, the film ‘Virgencita’ is her debut movie as a producer.
- She working on Shiva Baby as a thesis for her final year in college, Emma wrote, direct and edit it. The American film Shiva Baby’s story is based on cultural conflict and women’s relationship, sex. The film featured star actors plays the characters in this movie named are Rachel Sennott, Polly Draper, Dianna Agron, Molly Gordon, Fred Melamed, and Danny Deferrari.
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Emma Seligman Net worth
Emma Seligman professionally engaged in the entertainment industry and earns a net worth of $100k approximately.