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Writer: Tick Tock. Emma Needell is known for Tick Tock (2014), The Water Man (2020) and Desert Noir (2013).
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About. My career in Hollywood began when Oprah Winfrey produced my screenplay THE WATER MAN, a magical realism tale which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in...
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May 4, 2021 · I had the utmost pleasure speaking with screenwriter Emma Needell. We talk about her adventurous spirit as a child who conjured stories around world-building and myth-making, her journey as a screenwriter to writing and making The Water Man, and her successful collaboration with director David Oyelowo .
Screenwriter Emma Needell, A&S '12, returned to her family's Colorado ranch to film <em>Life Rendered</em>, her new film about a cowboy who uses virtual reality to explore his secret inner self.
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May 5, 2021 · Emma Needell’s script for The Water Man was featured on the 2015 Black List, but it was 2019 before the story gained the momentum to get made into a feature-length film. The story centers on a boy, hoping to save his sick mother, that ventures into a remote forest to search for a mythical figure who possesses the secret to immortality.
May 7, 2021 · The film’s screenwriter, Emma Needell, grew up in Elbert County on a 740-acre, solar-powered cattle ranch and went to elementary and middle school in the town of Elbert. Her parents — one-time doctors who met in Colorado during their residencies — moved to the rural burg southeast of Denver after her father sold his outpatient MRI business.
Oct 3, 2022 · LIFE RENDERED, “an exploration of inner identity,” co-written and directed by Emma Needell premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year. Needell returned to her native Colorado to shoot this exploration of love in the modern age. Read more in the Fall 2022 Johns Hopkins Magazine.
