Emily Kai Bock

Emily Kai Bock is a Canadian writer and film director.

In 2017, her short film A Funeral for Lightning was included in TIFF's annual Canada's Top Ten list of the top 10 Canadian short films of the year, selected by a panel of filmmakers and industry professionals. It went on to be nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action Short Drama, and won the Grand Jury Award for Best Short Film at the LA Film Festival and an honorable mention for Best U.S. Short and Best Tennessee Short at the Nashville Film Festival.

In 2014, Bock won the Prism Prize and UK Music Video Awards for writing and directing a video for the Arcade Fire song Afterlife and was nominated for Director of the Year at the 2014 Much Music Video Awards.

Bock has also directed notable music videos for Lorde, Grizzly Bear, and Grimes.

Early life Bock was born in Toronto, Ontario. before studying film production at Concordia University while a resident of the Lab Synthese loft space.

In 2012, after directing the music video for Grimes' song "Oblivion", Bock withdrew from her study.

Grimes

Grizzly Bear 2014

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