EMILY VERDOUW
DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY (IN DEVELOPMENT/PRODUCTION)
When a star player is forced to give up a promising career due to troubling signs of brain injury, one community football club embarks on a ground-breaking experiment that may not only save lives, but ensure the future of their beloved game.
Director & Writer: Emily Verdouw
CANVAS FILM
BuzzFeed Aus
'Resignation Syndrome in Refugee Children’
Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism, 2019 Finalist - Television/Video Current Affairs Short
Directed, Produced, Shot & Edited: Emily Verdouw
SBS The Feed
'Dangerous Games’
Young Walkley Australian Journalist of the Year Awards 2018 Winner - Visual Storytelling
Directed, Produced, Shot & Edited: Emily Verdouw
The Project
'Raise the Age’
Writer & Producer: Emily Verdouw
The Project
'CTE in Aussie Rules’
Writer & Producer: Emily Verdouw
DAILY NEWS
The Project
'Josh Cavallo'
Writer, Producer: Emily Verdouw
The Project
'Sexual Assault at Schools'
Writer, Producer: Emily Verdouw
The Project
'Misogynistic Extremists'
Writer, Producer: Emily Verdouw
The Project
'Aboriginal Lives Matter'
Writer, Producer: Emily Verdouw
The Project
'Britney Freed’
Writer, Producer: Emily Verdouw
The Project
'IVF Add-ons'
Writer, Producer: Emily Verdouw
The Project
'End of WWII'
Writer, Producer: Emily Verdouw
INTERNATIONAL
The Project
'Paramedics Breaking'
Writer, Producer: Emily Verdouw
BuzzFeed DE
'Dein Bauch gehört mir'
MUNICH, GERMANY
Directed: Juliane Loeffler
Produced, Shot, Edited: Emily Verdouw
HuffPost
'Fight Against Mass Extinction’
HOEDSPRUIT, SOUTH AFRICA
Director/ Producer/ co-Shooter/ Editor: Emily Verdouw, Cinematography: Black Bean Productions & Wild Ark
Ozy
’Breaking the Silence’
ZAGREB, CROATIA
Directed, Producer, Shot, Edited: Emily Verdouw
Obama Foundation
’Europe Town Hall’
BERLIN, GERMANY
Co-Produced, Shot, Edited: Emily Verdouw
Obama Foundation
‘Aminata Touré’
KIEL, GERMANY
Produced, Shot & Edited: Emily Verdouw
ARCHIVES
HuffPost
'Can Abusive Men Change?’
Young Walkley Australian Journalist of the Year Awards 2018 Finalist - Public Service Journalism
Directed, Produced, Shot, Edited: Emily Verdouw
HuffPost
'Men & Suicide’
Young Walkley Australian Journalist of the Year Awards 2017 Finalist - Long Form
Directed, Produced, Shot, Edited: Emily Verdouw
HuffPost
'The Sunday That Changed Australia’
Directed, Produced, Shot, Edited: Emily Verdouw. Co-Produced: Emily Brooks
HuffPost
'The JellyBean Minstrels’
Directed, Produced, Shot, Edited: Emily Verdouw. Co-Produced: Dave Barden
HuffPost
'Lois Olney’
Directed, Produced, Shot, Edited: Emily Verdouw
HuffPost
'Dying to be a Model’
Directed, Produced, Shot, Edited: Emily Verdouw
HuffPost
'The Long Goodbye’
Directed, Produced, Shot, Edited: Emily Verdouw
HuffPost
'Aquabumps'
Directed, Produced, Shot, Edited: Emily Verdouw. Co-Produced: Emily Brooks
HuffPost
'Miss First Nation'
Directed, Produced, Shot, Edited: Emily Verdouw
HuffPost
'The Teskey Brothers'
Directed, Produced, Shot, Edited: Emily Verdouw
HuffPost
'Bondi Street Artist'
Directed, Produced, Shot, Edited: Emily Verdouw. Co-Produced: Emily Brooks
PODCASTS
Emily Verdouw heads to Africa to talk conservation in the age of mass extinction with WildArk founders Mark and Sophie Hutchinson. October, 2017 (press image to listen)
"When the world's off your shoulders." From Machu Picchu to Holland to Syria to India to England -- Emily Verdouw explores what it means to be free, and the liberating nature of travel. She speaks with her sister Melissa Verdouw, who has lived in Holland, Paris and India in her early 20s; Tom Compagnoni, HuffPost Australia's Video Editor, who travelled through the Middle East and Asia until his mid-30s; and Stuart Cohen, a filmmaker and photographer who is 56 and revolves both his career and downtime around exploring the world. July, 2017 (press image to listen)