At the moment Doug is at home in Los Angeles shooting Swiped for director Rachel Goldenberg. His most recent feature, The American Society of Magical Negroes (dir. Kobi Libii, Focus Features), premiered at Sundance and released theatrically in March 2024. Presumed Innocent has been a celebrated hit on Apple TV+ and holds its rank as Apple’s #1 streamed drama series. This reimagining of the classic novel stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Ruth Negga, and Peter Sarsgaard. In 2023, Emmett shot the independent series Hal & Harper with Mark Ruffalo for writer-director Cooper Raiff. His prior work, the Sundance award-winning Breaking (John Boyega, Dir. Abi Demaris Corbin) released theatrically summer 2022. Some other recent television work includes Angelyne for Peacock and Julie Delpy’s On The Verge, for Netflix. 2019 was a busy year between shooting 2nd unit on Euphoria, filming J Blakeson’s I Care A Lot for Blackbear Pictures (Netflix), and for HBO Max Unpregnant - directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg. Sorry To Bother You, written & directed by Boots Riley, premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for Gotham Awards and won at the Indie Spirit Awards. In years prior, Doug photographed the first two seasons of HBO's Room 104. A Duplass Brothers original series, Room 104 presented Emmett with the unique challenge of shooting 24 half-hour episodes all in one hotel room. ICG Magazine featured Room 104 in this September issue (link). Additionally, he photographed pilots for The Rookie, Tell Me a Story, and Speechless. Past feature film credits include The One I Love, Edge of 17, Bachelorette, and The To Do List. Doug’s film career stretches back to 2009 and the completion of Breaking marked Emmett’s 20th feature film.
The East Coast native is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Emmett is a Union Local 600 cinematographer and a member of the Directors Guild of America, and represented by United Talent Agency.
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