Emily Korteweg

 

Producer of
THE CLIMB

Emily Korteweg is the VP of Watch This Ready, a NY based production company founded by Michael Covino and Kyle Marvin. Emily oversees Watch This Ready’s entire slate of scripted and unscripted features and TV shows, which includes projects with Topic Studios, Fifth Season, Paramount, Phantascope, Media Rights Capital, and more. The company is currently in production on a feature documentary about the famed Ferrari GTO/1960s Italian car era with Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner Steve Hoover, a feature documentary with Oscar nominee Kief Davidson and MRC, a feature film with Amman Abbasi; and in development on a wide variety of titles including Michael Lewis’ book COACH. Emily produced the upcoming feature GOD’S TIME, directed by Daniel Antebi, which was released by IFC Films, and was an associate producer on THE CLIMB (Cannes Un Certain Regard 2019 / Sony Pictures Classics). Before Watch This Ready, Emily worked at Verve Talent and Literary Agency as well as Pulse Films, and prior to that completed her BA and MSc in Finance and Marketing in London. She hails from The Netherlands, and has a relentless appetite for the power of storytelling, and the intersection of art and commerce at that.