Watch Emery & Ross’s TEDxCreativeCoast 2010 presentation
Emery McGaha is an aspiring filmmaker. He is a rising sophomore at Carolina Day School in Asheville, where he got his start making shorts for school projects. Emery immediately fell in love with the creative and engaging process of making a movie, and hasn’t stopped making them since. In May of 2009, one of his short films was screened at the Fine Arts theater in Asheville. Since then, the size of his production team has grown exponentially, and he has produced multiple other shorts. Whenever Emery is not working on a movie, he is watching one. He enjoys action, comedy, horror, drama, and anything else that isn’t a romantic comedy. In making films, he focuses on action comedies, a difficult genre for a low budget. Nonetheless, he is currently producing and directing his latest action comedy feature, set to be released online in October.
Ross Marnock is a young film enthusiast, and is a rising sophomore at Carolina Day School, located in Asheville, North Carolina. In seventh grade Ross made his very first short film for an event known as “Think Week” at his Middle School, as well making a few other shorts for school projects. Ever since then Ross has continued to direct, star, and produce films alongside his colleague Emery McGaha, slowly gaining the hard-earned respect from adult filmakers as well. Ross will enjoy a film in any genre as long as it has a good script, but has a particular soft spot for enjoying and creating action comedy films, which are difficult to pull off with a low budget and still maintain overall quality. Ross and Emery plan to release their current film, an action comedy film as well, this October.
Emery and Ross will be speaking as part of the TEDxNGA (Next Generation Asheville) / TEDxCreativeCoast creative exchange.
