Director

Emilio Miguel Torres

Directing

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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 0All crew credits: 9

TMDB ID: 2385517

IMDb ID: nm10796109

Known for: Directing

Born: May 10, 2000

Age: 25

Place of birth: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2019 - 2025

Years active: 7

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Director (2)Writer (3)Editor (2)Associate Producer (1)Production Assistant (1)

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Biography

Emilio Miguel Torres is an award-winning Puerto Rican-Mexican American filmmaker based in Phoenix, Arizona. An NYU Tisch School of the Arts film school graduate, he has written and directed multiple short films that have screened in over 35 international film festivals, earning honors such as the First Prize Kalborg Award at the New Visions and Voices Film Festival, the Critics' Choice Award at the Sci-On Film Festival, and Best Film at the Apex Film Festival. His debut feature film, The Ladder is a sci-fi, drama film about aging, technology, and family shot in his hometown of Ketchikan, Alaska. This fiercely independent, community-driven project is currently on the festival circuit, with selections at the Fargo Film Festival, Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival, Wyoming International Film Festival, and the OKCine Latino Film Festival, where it won Best First Feature Film and Best Editing. After screening at the Phoenix Film Festival as part of the U.S. Feature Competition, Torres took home the Copper Wing Award for 2025 Arizona Filmmaker of the Year.