Emily Drake is a filmmaker and feminist, working in the Toronto indie film scene. She creates and seeks out projects that centre the de-centered and offer razor-sharp insights into social justice issues through the language of cinema. She is passionate about stories that explore mental health, identity crises, and other depressing topics, all through the hilarious lens of comedy.

Emily wrote and directed the award-winning short comedy/horror Late Night Fright, and had the honour of working on the groundbreaking CBC-Gem web series Get Up, Aisha, which explores mental health and identity (two of my favourite things!).

Most recently, Emily wrote and directed a Short Documentary, Intangible, that will shortly be running the film festival circuit. This documentary explores the unseen experiences of chronic social anxiety and poses the question: can a visual artist help us see someone elses intangible experience of social anxiety, through the language of visual art? This documentary aims to find out.