Off Center Media
In 1999, Emily Kunstler co-founded Off Center Media with her sister Sarah Kunstler. Off Center is a documentary production company that exposes injustice in the criminal justice system through the creation and circulation of media. At Off Center Media, Emily has produced, directed and edited a number of short documentaries, including Tulia, Texas: Scenes from the Drug War (2003), which won Best Documentary Short at the Woodstock Film Festival, and was instrumental in winning exoneration for 35 wrongfully-convicted people in the small town of Tulia, Texas, and Getting Through to the President (2004), which has aired on the Sundance Channel, Current TV, and Channel Thirteen/WNET.
Other notable Off Center Media projects include A Pattern of Exclusion: The Trial of Thomas Miller-El (2002), a documentary about racism at the trial of Miller-El, who had been on death row in Texas since 1985, see Supreme Court case Miller-El v. Dretke; The Norfolk Four: A Miscarriage of Justice (2006), about four young men in Norfolk, Virginia, who falsely confessed to a rape-murder that they did not commit, see the Norfolk Four Website; and Executing the Insane: The Case of Scott Panetti (2007), see Supreme Court case Panetti v. Quarterman. These films have contributed to campaigns to secure pardons, stay executions and convince decision makers to reopen cases.
Emily Kunstler completed a documentary about her father entitled William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. The film is a co-production of the Independent Television Service (ITVS) and aired on the award-winning PBS series P.O.V. on Jun 22, 2010 as that year's season opener. The film was an official selection of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and has since screened at over 35 festivals. Arthouse Films released the film theatrically in over 25 cities in North America in November 2009, to considerable critical acclaim.
It also received a 2008 grant from the Foundation for Jewish Culture's Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film.
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