ABOUT

Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler run Off Center Media, a production company that produces documentaries exposing racism and other injustices in the criminal justice system. The sisters founded Off Center Media in 2000, and have produced, directed, many short documentaries that have contributed to campaigns to stay executions, convince decision makers to reopen cases, and exonerate the wrongfully convicted. In 2009, the sisters completed William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, an award-winning feature documentary, which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, screened in over 40 other festivals, was released theatrically in 26 cities, and opened the 2010 season of POV on PBS. In 2021 the sisters co-directed Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America, which won the Audience Award in the Documentary Spotlight Category at SXSW, was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics and was theatrically released in over 250 cities. In 2023 they co-directed How to Rig An Election: The Racist History of the 1876 Presidential Contest (SXSW, 2023), an animated documentary short narrated by Tom Hanks that was released nationally by The Washington Post.

Emily Kunstler studied film at NYU and Sarah Kunstler went to Columbia Law School. For over 20 years this filmmaking team has been committed to making films about the criminal legal system. Sarah is also a practicing attorney, representing indigent defendants in New York.