Emily L. Harrold
Emily Harrold is a documentary filmmaker from Orangeburg, South Carolina. Her films have screened at festivals including the Tribeca Film Festival, DOC NYC and the Telluride Film Festival. Her short film Meltdown In Dixie, a Topic original documentary, won the Academy Qualifying Best Short at the 2021 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. In June 2021, it aired on World Channel's America Reframed series. Harrold produced the PBS American Experience documentary Voice of Freedom about singer Marian Anderson, which premiered in February 2021. Her feature documentary directing debut, While I Breathe, I Hope about politician Bakari Sellers, won the documentary Audience Award at the 2018 New Orleans Film Festival, premiered on WorldChannel's AfroPop series in 2019, and won a 2020 Southeast Region Emmy. Harrold is also part of the team behind Discovery's Tigerland (Sundance 2019) and National Geographic's Ron Howard-directed Rebuilding Paradise (Sundance 2020). Harrold is a member of Film Fatales and the collective The Filmshop. She is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
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Biography from IMDb.
- Producer
- 8 on MovieCove
What are Emily L. Harrold's films like?
Across their 8 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Society and Self.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 6
A split, not a type: Light 3 · Serious 1 · Dark 2
Grounded 5 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 0
A split, not a type: Gentle 3 · Charged 2 · Intense 1
Steady 4 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 4 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 0
Slow burn 5 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 0
A split, not a type: Casual 3 · Engaged 2 · Full focus 1
Easy watch 2 · Affecting 3 · Heavy 1
Resolved 5 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet4
- Ambiguous4
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Emily L. Harrold's films?
As of October 24, 2026, all 8 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on HBO Max (3).
- Curiosity Stream
- discovery+
Subscription and free streaming for Emily L. Harrold's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
8 credits, 8 with a MovieCove page.
Wild Wild Space(2024)
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 34th percentile of all shows
Reopening Night(2021)
Midcredits score: 38th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Rebuilding Paradise(2020)
Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films
Tigerland(2019)
Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all films
Digits(2016)
Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all shows
Career shape
Across their 8 MovieCove titles from 2016 to 2024.
How do Emily L. Harrold's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 71st percentile, the median of all 6; across their 6 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 69th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up2
- 50th to 74th4
- 25th to 49th2
Shape of the crowd
3 of their 8 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved1
- Divisive1
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser3
- Mixed2
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Emily L. Harrold work with?
People who share at least 2 of Emily L. Harrold's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Xan Parker shares the most, 3.
Directors
- Ross KauffmanShared titles: Wild Wild Space (2024), Tigerland (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Ross Kauffman
Actors
- Barack ObamaShared titles: Working: What We Do All Day (2023), THE END: Inside the Last Days of the Obama White House (2017)See all 2 shared titles with Barack Obama
Editors
- Hypatia PorterShared titles: Wild Wild Space (2024), Tigerland (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Hypatia Porter
Producers
- Xan ParkerShared titles: Rebuilding Paradise (2020), Tigerland (2019), THE END: Inside the Last Days of the Obama White House (2017)See all 3 shared titles with Xan Parker
- Lisa HellerShared titles: Wild Wild Space (2024), Reopening Night (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Lisa Heller
- Nancy AbrahamShared titles: Wild Wild Space (2024), Reopening Night (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Nancy Abraham
- Justin WilkesShared titles: Rebuilding Paradise (2020), Tigerland (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Justin Wilkes
