EMILY Q&A | TIFF 2022

“The team behind EMILY in conversation with TIFF in advance of its premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. This boldly atmospheric portrait of Wuthering Heights author Emily Brontë — the directorial debut from veteran actor Frances O’Connor — is a tale of creativity, secret desire, and a woman’s arduous journey toward self-actualization in 19th-century England. The 47th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 8 to 18, 2022. For more, visit . This boldly atmospheric, psychologically incisive portrait of Wuthering Heights author Emily Brontë sweeps us away to 19th-century England for a tale of irrepressible creativity and secret desire. The directorial debut of veteran actor Frances O’Connor, Emily makes haunting drama of a young woman’s arduous journey toward realizing her vocation. People in the village call her “the strange one.” The second-youngest of the Brontë siblings, Emily (Sex Education’s Emma Mackey) was three years old wh