Susanne Rostock

Long esteemed as "an aural and visual poet", Susanne Rostock's filmmaking is a stunning 38 years of some of the most compelling documentaries of each decade. Her most recent film as director / editor, Sing Your Song, about Harry Belafonte's life as an artist and activist, was chosen to open the U.S. Documentary Competition section of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, where it was described as a story "told with a remarkable sense of intimacy, visual style and musical panache". This film continues to be in world wide theatrical distribution and television broadcast and has aired on HBO. Sing Your Song received top honors in festivals around the world, was shortlisted for an Oscar, and garnered the NAACP Image Award and a Gracie for Outstanding Director. Susanne has achieved recognition for her editing on a myriad of films that continue to endure and resonate. Her films have earned Emmy's, IDA awards, Cable Ace awards, a Gold Hugo and acknowledgment from multiple national and international festivals, had theatrical distribution and aired on either HBO or PBS. Susanne's 20 year multi-award winning collaboration as editor with director Michael Apted has produced such richly provocative films as: The Long Way Home; Incident At Oglala; Me & Isaac Newton; Moving The Mountain. Some of her other iconic and provocative work as an editor includes: Passin' It On; Calling The Ghosts; The Uprising of '34; Paternal Instinct. Susanne is presently directly an HBO funded film, Another Night In The Free World, which has been documenting the lives of three young women activist from 2012 to the present. It is an intimate story of the harsh everyday realities of living a life devoted to social justice activism and the heartfelt, rich rewards that keep these women fighting. One of the three, Carmen Perez became one of the primary organizers of the Women's March On Washington. Susanne studied anthropology and ethnographic filmmaking with Margaret Mead at Columbia University and received an MFA in Filmmaking from New York University. She resides in New York City.