Emily Best

Emily Best is the founder and CEO of Seed&Spark, a platform built to make entertainment more diverse, inclusive, connected and essential. She has raised millions in investment and crowdfunding, secured large brand partnerships, and built a world-class team for Seed&Spark. In addition to her work at Seed&Spark, she has produced films, series and VR projects that have premiered at Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca and more. Her most recent film is RATIFIED, a feature documentary about the 100-year struggle to enshrine gender equality in the US Constitution, coming out late summer 2024. Alongside Christie Marchese at Kinema, Emily spearheaded an effort to launch The Distribution Playbook, a totally free and open- sourced field guide for independent filmmakers to succeed in distribution.