Emily Allen is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker and photographer from Utah. She has worked with directors including Sebastian Junger, Liz Garbus and Jem Cohen. Her work explores the connection of characters and story to environment and place. She directed and shot the short films 81 Bowery, about Chinese immigrants living in a tenement house in downtown Manhattan, and They Came in Softly: Life in the Shadow of a Mine, about a gold mine in Papua New Guinea and its impact on local highland communities. Cisco Kid is her debut feature film.