“Okay, we should get off the field because I feel like lightning may strike,” director Emma Seligman told the crew. They were gathered on that field to shoot Seligman’s second directorial ...

Starring “Shiva Baby’s” Rachel Sennott and “The Bear’s” Ayo Edebiri, director Emma Seligman’s queered teen comedy puts a wild, violent spin on high school life. From the stage at the ...

After cementing her wunderkind status at just 24 years old with breakout feature Shiva Baby, Emma Seligman had a lot to live up to. Now 28, the director is returning to cinemas with her first ...

The director Emma Seligman took a big leap from her buzzy feature debut, “Shiva Baby.” But this is the film she wanted to make all along. By Melena Ryzik In “Bottoms,” a pair of teenagers ...

Director Emma Seligman said her new movie “Bottoms” is reminiscent of the 2000s classics “Bring It On” (2000) and “Mean Girls” (2004). (ORION Pictures Inc.) Since its debut at South by Southwest film ...

Originally, Emma Seligman wanted to be a film critic. But after directing theater in school, they became interested in crafting stories instead of critiquing them. Studying film at New York ...

From pre-vis to improv, Seligman breaks down how they achieved the film’s unique brand of action comedy. “It was like ‘Scott Pilgrim’ in a John Hughes world,” said Seligman when they wer ...

They need to pummel their way into being seen. This is the second feature directed by Emma Seligman, whose first film, “Shiva Baby” (2021), was a critical darling, though I found it at once ...

Help support the DJs, journalists, and staff of the station you love. Director Emma Seligman on following her buzzy 2020 debut, “Shiva Baby,” with the surreal, queer high school hook-up comedy ...

However, filmmaker Emma Seligman flips the script on the genre, centering on the LGBTQ+ community. "Bottoms" doesn't fit into any one genre. It's part drama, action, horror and teen-sex comedy.

It’s a 90-degree June evening in Manhattan, and Edebiri and Sennott, along with the filmmaker Emma Seligman, their close friend and a fellow NYU grad, are sweatily crammed around a table in the ...

Director Emma Seligman on following her buzzy 2020 debut, “Shiva Baby,” with the surreal, queer high school hook-up comedy “Bottoms.” ‘Priscilla’ director Sofia Coppola shares how Priscilla Presley’s ...