Erin Brethauer

Erin Brethauer is an Emmy-winning filmmaker, photographer, story producer and co-founder of This Land Films, based in Asheville, NC. Her work explores people’s rhythms and changes over time- ranging from climate change and motherhood to life after incarceration- and has been featured in The New Yorker, The California Sunday Magazine and The New York Times Magazine. She co-directed Last Men Standing, the San Francisco Chronicle’s first feature-length documentary, which premiered at major LGBTQ+ festivals worldwide. Brethauer is currently co-directing and producing her second feature film, STRAY EMBERS, which follows a family’s life over five years after the 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise, California. She was a 2020 SFFILM FilmHouse Resident and is a Miller/Packan Film Fund recipient. After living through Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina in September 2024 with her partner, Tim Hussin, and their three month-old son, they are developing a film about the flood, incorporating themes from what they learned from her time in Paradise. Brethauer is also working on a short film about the project, Photos From Helene.