CASTING DIRECTOR

Emily Schweber has cast over 100 films. She began her career working on commercials and movies in the Bay Area.  After moving to Los Angeles, she worked with the late Mali Finn on such films as Terminator 2, True Lies, and Titanic  for James Cameron, L.A. Confidential and Wonder Boys  for Curtis Hanson, The Matrix  for the Wachowskis, and The Client, A Time to Kill, Batman Forever, and Tigerland  for Joel Schumacher.

Many of her films have premiered at major film festivals including Sundance, South by Southwest, Tribeca, Venice, Cannes, and LA Film Festival.  Selected credits include I’ll See You In My Dreams, The Hero, Secondhand Lions, The Wood, Lemon, Oh Lucy!, The Tiger Hunter, The Quarry, and Flora and Ulysses.

Video game credits include Star Wars: Battlefront II, Wolfenstein: The New Colossus  and The New Order, Battlefield 1, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Killzone: Shadow Fall, and most recently Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Need for Speed: Heat and Star Wars: Squadrons.

Emily was the Film Independent Directing Lab Advisor for 2018 and 2019.