Emma Angen Rose is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker with a background in production design, visual art, and textile design based in Somerville, Massachusetts. 

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She earned her BA at Vassar College in film studies and graduated with the David C. Magid Prize in cinematography. Her documentary capstone, Dear Goddess, focused on a sex worker selling used shoes online to a man embezzling his company to fund his foot fetish kink. In the creation of this film, Emma solidified her interest in political storytelling with a human humor baked in. She received her MFA from Emerson College in 2025. 

 

As a freelance director and editor, her past clients include PBS, the National Lawyers Guild, Columbia University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Emma has worked in a variety of positions on numerous films and television shows, including Allen v. Farrow (Dick, Ziering, 2021), The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography (Morris, 2017), Justice (Liman, 2023), and The Man Who Tried to Feed the World (American Experience, 2020). Her directorial work has screened at festivals and in galleries including the Salem Film Festival, The Palmer Gallery, E. Galleria, and Southern Sunset Undergraduate Film Festival.