Camp Wedding with Greg Emetaz
Greg Emetaz
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Greg Emetaz (He/Him) is a filmmaker originally from Vancouver, WA now based in New York City. His feature film CAMP WEDDING received the Funnybone Award from the Eastern Oregon Film Fest, Nevermore Film Festival’s audience Award and was called “mad as a bag of hats,” by someone on the internet. His short films include: BOWES ACADEMY (OUT SOUTH BEST SHORT), SPELL CLAIRE, GET THE F K OUTTA PARIS!, DEATH BY OMELETTE (SNCF Prix Du Polar Finalist) and webseries DO IT YOURSELFIE (Friar’s Club special Jury Award, iTVfest Best Director award) In addition to filmmaking, he’s worked in opera houses from Beijing to Croatia as a video designer as well as creating behind-scenes documentaries for Julie Taymor's THE TEMPEST, and SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK and numerous other live productions including the NEA Jazz Masters and Opera Honors.
What are you best known for?
I wish I knew. Perhaps people would know me for my horror feature CAMP WEDDING about a frugal bride that tries to have her friends turn a haunted summer camp into the wedding venue of her dreams. Or maybe my short film DEATH BY OMELETTE that played on a French train for a year and that someone even made a near shot for shot remake of that I just happened to stumble across one day on the internet. Could also be my collaborations with Amanda DeSimone including the webseries DO IT YOURSELFIE with the viral music video BUTT DRUNK: THE VODKA SOAKED TAMPON SONG. And if none of that, maybe they know my work as a projection designer for opera, theater and live events that’s taken me all over the US and the world.
What is the first thing you worked on professionally?
This is probably stretching the definition of professionally, but while in grad school at NYU for theatrical lighting design I took a train out to Kansas and then a 100mile taxi ride to work on a grad film. It was about a group of boy scouts trying to build a bomb to blow up the county courthouse and the girl scouts that thwart their plan. I was just a PA and very new to filmmaking, but after years in dark theaters, being outside in these vast cornfields shooting an epic story on virtually no budget got me completely hooked.
What are you working on that no one knows about yet?
Several projects, including a neo-western about four friends from high school reuniting to cover up an accidental murder, a screw-ball comedy about a revolution within a suburban ballet company’s annual Nutcracker and a coming-of age-gay horror movie.