12-year-old filmmaker to screen latest work at WILLiFEST film festival
Award-Winning ‘Will I Scatter Away?’ in Brooklyn premier
She’s only 12, but Emma Penaz Eisner has already created three critically-acclaimed short films that have screened at more than 60 international film festivals and won 25 awards.
Emma, who hails from San Francisco, will be presenting her latest, the surrealistic short thriller “Will I Scatter Away?” at the WILLiFEST film festival in Williamsburg this weekend.
“Will I Scatter Away?” has earned five awards including Best Experimental Film Junior Division at CineYouth (presented by Chicago International Film Festival) and Audience Experimental Award at Columbia Gorge International Film Festival. Saturday’s 1 p.m. screening at Williamsburg Cinemas will be the film’s Brooklyn premiere.