Emily Diana Ruth (she/her)

Emily Diana Ruth is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist working in film and textiles. Her practice explores coming-of-age and identity through a female lens, blending narrative storytelling with experimental and material-based approaches.

Her proof-of-concept short COLD, funded by Ron Howard and Brian Grazier’s New Form Digital, was later developed into a 10-episode series for Verizon and awarded the 2017 Streamy Award for Best Drama Series. More recently, she worked as a writer and executive producer on the Quibi drama series Don’t Look Deeper, starring Helena Howard, Don Cheadle and Emily Mortimer, and directed by Catherine Hardwicke. The rest of her body of work includes short films, music videos, branded content and countless textile projects.

Alongside her film work, Ruth integrates textile processes into her storytelling, a practice she began during her university thesis film What a Young Girl Should Not Know. Her work engages materials as a means of exploring memory, identity and narrative form.

Emily holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Film Production and Screenwriting from York University and is an alumna of Women in the Director’s Chair, the Netflix Banff Diversity of Voices Pitch Program, and Women in Film & Television’s Connect Mentorship Program. She looks forward to living and making work in Doris McCarthy’s footsteps at Fool’s Paradise, her first artist residency.