EMILY TOPPER

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Emily was born and raised in Baltimore, earned a Bachelors from Swarthmore College in Literature in 1999 and a Masters of Fine Arts from University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts in 2004. Emily got her start coming up through the ranks in lighting on independent fiction features, all the while cutting her teeth shooting shorts, music videos, and experimental art films. In 2007, she began work on her first feature documentary, "Aint In It For My Health: A Film About Levon Helm," an experience that left her infatuated with the itinerant, 'never-a-dull-moment' life of a documentary shooter. Emily has since shot several documentaries, including "Miss Americana: Taylor Swift" (2020), "Bulletproof" (2020), "The Most Unknown" (2018), “The Departure” (2017), the 2015 Emmy winner for Best Documentary, "After Tiller."