Emily Hagins

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Emily Hagins in 2007 at a screening of her first feature-length film, Pathogen
Emily Hagins in 2007 at a screening of her first feature-length film, Pathogen

Emily Hagins (born October 27, 1992), was the producer, writer, editor, and director of the 2006 independent feature film, Pathogen. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and moved to Austin, Texas in 1993. She is the first teenage girl in the United States to direct a feature-length film.[1] She always had a keen interest in movies, and by second grade had earned the nickname, "The movie girl". Not long after reading J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, she saw Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring and was inspired to make her own movies. She made 8 short films including It's a Dog's Life and a documentary about an independent film, CrazyInsane Productions' Organic. At age 10 her short-films had drawn the interest of Harry Knowles, a critic with Ain't It Cool News. He shared her short, Buddie vs. The Barbies I with director Cameron Crowe who found it "really funny".[2] At Butt-numb-a-thon 5 she saw her first zombie film, UNDEAD which inspired her to expand her repertoire. By May 2004, she finished the screenplay for Pathogen, a feature-length zombie film. In August 2005, she won a Texas Filmmakers Production Fund grant to finish post production work on the film.[3] She finished the film which premiered at the Alamo Drafthouse[4][5] and the publicity persuaded organizers to name her the youngest-ever guest-of-honor at CONvergence 2007 in Bloomington, Minnesota.[6] Vacdoomed Productions is working on a documentary about Hagins, Zombie Girl: The Movie profiling her production of Pathogen.[7]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Kearney, Mary Celeste (2006). Girls Make Media. Routledge Taylor and Francis Group. ISBN 0-415-97278-7. 
  2. ^ Ford, Lauren Smith (October 2006), “Spotlight:Talent Zombie Girl”, TeenVogue.com: 60–62, <http://www.teenvogue.com/> 
  3. ^ Emily Hagins. IMDB. Retrieved on 2007-06-28.
  4. ^ INGMAN, MARRIT (JUNE 30, 2006), “The Latest From Z Zeitgeist”, Austin Chronicle 
  5. ^ DeFore, John (March 24, 2006). What did you do at 13? Austin girl made movie. Austin American-Statesman. Cox Texas Newspapers. Retrieved on 2007-06-28.
  6. ^ CONvergence 2007 - Creature Feature. CONvergence (2007). Retrieved on 2007-06-28.
  7. ^ Zombie Girl: The Movie. Retrieved on 2007-07-09.