Emily Kai Bock

Emily Kai Bock
Born1983 or 1984 (age 40–41)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Alma mater
Years active2012–present

Emily Kai Bock (born 1983 or 1984) is a Canadian writer and film director.

In 2017, her short film A Funeral for Lightning was included in TIFF's annual Canada's Top Ten list of the top 10 Canadian short films of the year, selected by a panel of filmmakers and industry professionals.[1] It went on to be nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action Short Drama,[2] and won the Grand Jury Award for Best Short Film at the LA Film Festival[3] and an honorable mention for Best U.S. Short and Best Tennessee Short at the Nashville Film Festival.[4]

In 2014, Bock won the Prism Prize and UK Music Video Awards[5] for writing and directing a video for the Arcade Fire song Afterlife and was nominated for Director of the Year at the 2014 Much Music Video Awards.[6]

Bock has also directed notable music videos for Lorde, Grizzly Bear, and Grimes.

  1. ^ "Canada's Top Ten Film Festival Celebrates Homegrown Talent" (PDF) (Press release). Toronto International Film Festival. 7 December 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  2. ^ "2017 Canadian Screen Awards: And The Winners Are…". ET Canada, March 12, 2017.
  3. ^ "L.A. Film Festival Prizes Go to ‘Becks,’ ‘Liyana,’ ‘The Night Guard’". Variety, June 22, 2017.
  4. ^ url=https://nashvillefilmfestival.org/2017-award-winners/ Archived 2017-08-05 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ url=https://www.ukmva.com/Pages/Detail/74-2014/
  6. ^ "Prism Prize: Arcade Fire's Afterlife Named Best Canadian Music Video". Huffington Post, March 24, 2014.