--- name: "Emma Seligman" canonical: "https://film.one/person/emma-seligman" fi1m_id: "emma-seligman" imdb_id: "nm7681231" tmdb_id: 1976040 wikidata_id: "Q102271759" roles: ["Producer","Director"] born: "3 May 1995" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "producer" average_over: 0 updated: "2026-09-17T20:19:58.372460+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Emma Seligman ## Identity Emma Seligman - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/emma-seligman - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** emma-seligman - **IMDb ID:** nm7681231 - **TMDB ID:** 1976040 - **Wikidata ID:** Q102271759 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Seligman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102271759, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7681231/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1976040 Producer and director. Born 3 May 1995 in Toronto, Canada. ## Details - **Work:** Producer, Director - **Born:** 3 May 1995, Toronto, Canada - **Also known as:** 艾玛·塞利格曼 - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Seligman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102271759, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7681231/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1976040 ## Biography Emma Seligman is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. She was born on 3 May 1995 in Toronto and graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is known for writing and directing the feature *Shiva Baby* (2020), which originated as her 2018 NYU thesis short of the same name, and for writing and directing *Bottoms* (2023), which she co-wrote with Rachel Sennott. The pair first collaborated on the short and have worked together on both features. *Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Bottoms* (2023), Fi1m 73, Writer, Executive Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/bottoms.md) ## Complete filmography (10) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *This Closeness* (2024), Thanks - *Bottoms* (2023), Director, Executive Producer, Writer — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/bottoms.md) - *Shiva Baby* (2021), Producer, Director, Writer - *Virgencita* (2020), Producer - *Shiva Baby* (2018), Writer, Director - *Void* (2017), Writer, Editor, Director - *One Good Pitch* (2016), Costume Designer - *Cam Girls* (2015), Actor - *Stage Fright* (2014), as Production Intern - *Lunarcy!* (2012), Production Assistant ## Gallery - ![Emma Seligman](https://film.one/media/person/15603/gallery-680ab49cb177.png) Emma Seligman — Boston Jewish Film Festival, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Emma_Seligman_BJFF_2020_interview_%28cropped%29.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Emma Seligman BJFF 2020 interview](https://film.one/media/person/15603/gallery-ad4da3b6e309.png) Emma Seligman BJFF 2020 interview — Boston Jewish Film Festival, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Emma_Seligman_BJFF_2020_interview.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Shiva Baby Q&A: #BJFF2020 Conversation with director Emma Seligman Conversation with director Emma Seligman at the 32nd annual Boston Jewish Film Festival. ](https://film.one/media/person/15603/gallery-721624e6dd0c.jpg) Shiva Baby Q&A: #BJFF2020 Conversation with director Emma Seligman Conversation with director Emma Seligman at the 32nd annual Boston Jewish Film Festival. — Boston Jewish Film, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Emma_Seligman_at_Boston_Jewish_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Emma Seligman at the 2020 virtual Boston Jewish Film Festival.](https://film.one/media/person/15603/gallery-4556310550db.jpg) Emma Seligman at the 2020 virtual Boston Jewish Film Festival. — Boston Jewish Film, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Emma_Seligman_%E2%80%93_Boston_Jewish_Film_%281%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Emma Seligman](https://film.one/media/person/15603/gallery-a9e33d68a046.jpg) Emma Seligman — Image via TMDB - ![Emma Seligman](https://film.one/media/person/15603/gallery-9aa320d6bdd4.jpg) Emma Seligman — Image via TMDB - ![Emma Seligman](https://film.one/media/person/15603/gallery-4586ca2f1aec.jpg) Emma Seligman — Image via TMDB - ![Emma Seligman at the 2020 virtual Boston Jewish Film Festival.](https://film.one/media/person/15603/gallery-d9acfa41be65.jpg) Emma Seligman at the 2020 virtual Boston Jewish Film Festival. — Boston Jewish Film, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Emma_Seligman_%E2%80%93_Boston_Jewish_Film_%283%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Emma Seligman at the 2020 virtual Boston Jewish Film Festival.](https://film.one/media/person/15603/gallery-da25a2780b27.jpg) Emma Seligman at the 2020 virtual Boston Jewish Film Festival. — Boston Jewish Film, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Emma_Seligman_%E2%80%93_Boston_Jewish_Film_%284%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Emma Seligman](https://film.one/media/person/15603/gallery-25dd4722ba9d.jpg) Emma Seligman — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 2 won - Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Breakthrough Performance 2022: Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Breakthrough Performance (won), for *Shiva Baby* - 36 to Watch 2021: 36 to Watch (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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