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PROJECT UNLONELY FILMS Season 9
Emily Sheskin
Director
“Lately I’ve been feeling the weight of world whenever I go online, and I’ve been craving the flip side of the coin – uplifting stories where the internet isn’t a place to doom scroll but a place where people can find something positive.
Enter the jigsaw puzzle community – one that exploded online during the pandemic and helped bring folks together through speed puzzling and other events. As I continued to develop a feature around this amazing group of people, I was introduced to Adele – known as Grandma Puzzles in her corner of the internet.
I immediately fell in love with her spirit and story, and I hope audiences will too.”
Emily Sheskin
“Emily Sheskin is an award winning director whose work has been featured in numerous publications such as (but not limited to) The New York Times, National Geographic, and The Atlantic. She was also named one of the 10 groundbreaking women in film to watch in 2017 by Vimeo.
Most recently, her feature film on Jesselyn Silva (previously an award winning short and NY Times Op Doc) premiered in competition at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. From there it has gone on to win awards at Fargo (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Documentary) and Atlanta (Jury Award – Special Mention Documentary Feature).
She holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and is a member of New York Women in Film & Television, and IFP.”


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