Emily Railsback
Emily Railsback is an American director, screenwriter, producer, and educator with a background in visual arts. In 2015 she started Burnt Sugar Productions with award-winning sommelier, and now husband, Jeremy Quinn. Their first feature documentary "Our Blood Is Wine" premiered at the Berlinale International Film Festival in 2018, followed by a US theatrical release by Music Box Films and an international release by Magnet Film. Railsback's style blends narrative, documentary, and cinéma vérité techniques, giving her actors freedom to improvise dialogue, as is the case in her narrative feature-length directorial debut, "American Parent." In addition to narrative films and documentaries, she also creates music videos, photography exhibits, and live comedy performances that focus on issues of feminism, social justice, and the environment. She received her MFA from Columbia College Chicago where she taught for four years. Hoping to tell more rural stories, she now resides in Arkansas where she teaches film production at the University of Central Arkansas.
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- 2018 | Our Blood is Wine
Our Blood is Wine
Filmmaker Emily Railsback and award-winning sommelier Jeremy Quinn provide intimate access to rural family life in the Republic of Georgia as they explore the rebirth of 8,000-year-old winemaking traditions almost lost during the period of Soviet rule. By using unobtrusive iPhone technology, Railsback brings the voices and ancestral legacies of modern Georgians directly to the viewer, revealing an intricate and resilient society that has survived regular foreign invasion and repeated attempts to erase Georgian culture. The revival of traditional winemaking is the central force driving this powerful, independent and autonomous nation to find its 21st century identity.
