Emilie Upczak is an independent filmmaker, a Rotterdam Producers Lab alumni and an Andy Warhol Foundation Grant recipient. Upczak spent 10 years in Trinidad and Tobago, where she made films and worked as the creative director for the trinidad+tobago film festival spearheading the Caribbean Film Database and the Caribbean Film Mart. Upczak’s debut narrative feature, set in Port of Spain, Moving Parts, premiered at the Denver Film Festival and is available through the film's distributor, Indiepix. Emilie is on a fellowship with the Center for Humanities & the Arts, working with the Rare and Distinctive Collections at the University of Colorado Libraries to create a digital exhibition on the collection of Ann Roy, an American poet, mystic and feminist activist. She is also in development on her second feature film, a climate drama to be set in the near future on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon. Upczak is an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts, and the associate faculty director of the Brakhage Center for Media Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder.