About
Emma Angeline Schilders is a London-based Belgian filmmaker and YouTuber. At age fourteen she started a YouTube channel, then called Sarcastic Fish, where she creates videos on cinema, literature, and lifestyle content.
After completing a BA in Comparative Literature from King’s College London, Emma is a recent graduate from London Film School, where she wrote and directed three short films as part of the MA Filmmaking programme. Her films centre on women’s experiences of queerness, female friendship, and romance.
Emma Schilders
Course:
MA Filmmaking
Course number:
200
Graduation year:
2024
Nationality:
Belgium
Website:
https://sarcasticfish.com/
Graduation film
Where Colours Come From
As her parents’ marriage breaks down teenager Mia is sent to stay in the Provence with an old friend of her mother’s. Mia arrives to a welcoming Dominique and her daughter of the same age Heloïse, who is less than thrilled. Blaming Mia for not getting the summer she wanted, Heloïse amuses herself by antagonising the guest. When their feelings inevitably boil over, the girls discover they have more in common than just workaholic mothers and absentee fathers. When a parent unexpectedly arrives, the household is drawn together to confront of the past, the present and the future.
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