Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee is an author, Emmy- and Peabody Award–nominated filmmaker and a Sufi teacher. He has directed more than twenty documentary films including: Taste of the Land, The Last Ice Age, Aloha Āina, The Nightingale’s Song, Earthrise, Sanctuaries of Silence, and Elemental, among others. His films have been screened at New York Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, and Hot Docs, exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum and London’s Barbican, and featured on PBS POV, National Geographic, The New Yorker and The New York Times Op-Docs. His first book An Offering of Remembrance is forthcoming from Shambhala in Summer 2026. He is the founder, podcast host and executive editor of Emergence Magazine.
