Director's Works
Livestreams with GrandmaPuzzles Emily Sheskin
Emily Sheskin is an award winning film and commercial director. Her work has been featured in numerous publications such as (but not limited to) The New York Times, National Geographic, and The Atlantic. As a commercial director for over 10 years, Emily has directed for many well-known clients such as Microsoft and Disney. She's created short documentary content for Netflix, and brings a commercial level of polish to all her short film work, such as Girl Boxer which premiered as a New York Times OpDoc in 2017. Her first feature film, JessZilla, premiered in 2023 at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival where it was in competition. From there, the film has won awards at the Fargo Film Festival, Rhode Island Film Festival, Ridgefield Film Festival, and the Atlanta Film Festival. She is currently working with Versus NY to find a home for it as it continues to be programmed in festivals such as IDFA, DOC NYC, and more. She holds a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and is a member of New York Women in Film & Television, The Film Shop, Film Fatales, and IFP. She is currently 1/2 of the duo behind Chicken Wing Pictures.
Lately I've been feeling the weight of world whenever I go online, and I've been craving the flip side of the coin - uplifting stories where the internet isn't a place to doom scroll but a place where people can find something positive. Enter the jigsaw puzzle community - one that exploded online during the pandemic and helped bring folks together through speed puzzling and other events. As I continued to develop a feature around this amazing group of people, I was introduced to Adele - known as Grandma Puzzles in her corner of the internet. I immediately fell in love with her spirit and story, and I hope audiences will too.