Sue Kramer

Writer/Director/Producer Sue Kramer is a graduate of UCLA Film School. She graduated, winning the coveted Jim Morrison Award for Outstanding Direction and Writing for her short film, entitled "Till Death Do Us Part". In 2007, Ms. Kramer made her directorial debut with her original feature, Gray Matters which pays homage to 1940's screwball comedies with one, big, bang of a modern twist. The Hollywood reporter wrote "The movie opens with a rhapsodic and perfectly executed ballroom dance sequence, which harks back to the high spirits of Astaire & Rogers." Alexander Payne executive produced with El Camino Pictures/Bob Yari Film Group financing the film. Heather Graham, Tom Cavanagh, Alan Cumming, Sissy Spacek, Bridget Moynahan, and Molly Shannon starred in the romantic comedy about a brother and a sister who fall in love with the same woman. Gray Matters not only closed the 2007 Santa Barbara Film Festival but was chosen as the Spotlight Film of The Hamptons Film Festival. Gray Matters is still topping video rental charts. It has remained on the top 20 netflix list of "gay and lesbians hits" of all time. Sue adapted the German bestseller, Every Woman Loves a Russian Poet, for Constantin Films, She penned The Bunnies for Touchstone Pictures, based on the book, The Bunny Years, which pays homage to the Playboy Club in 1963. Sue has written several original screenplays, including London in June, for Touchstone Pictures, a European love story about two people who meet at the wrong time but are destined to be together. In 2003, she completed Walking Backwards for Julia Roberts and Revolution Studios, a supernatural love story set in Italy about a woman who loses everything and needs to pick up the pieces. Most recently, Sue dove into the world of game shows, selling an original pilot to Merv Griffin Entertainment and Lionsgate Entertainment. She will also serve as executive producer of the show. Sue's on-going volunteer work with The Creative Coalition includes her highly watched YOUVOTE video seen by over 10 million viewers. Sue wrote and directed the piece starring a plethora of A-list talent including Anne Hathaway, Blake Lively, Susan Sarandon and Samuel Jackson. Sue also chaired an entertainment delegation of artists that attended the DNC, RNC and the 2009 Presidential Inaugural. Sue Kramer will direct her original screenplay titled "The Locals", a modern day Romeo and Juliet dramedy about a three generational Jewish and Italian family set in the Bronx.