Susanna Styron (director/writer) most recently wrote and directed the short film, House of Teeth, starring Deborah Hedwall and Amanda Kristin Nichols. Her career as a director began with Columbia Pictures’ Shadrach, starring Harvey Keitel and Andie MacDowell, which premiered internationally at the Venice Film Festival. Her other directing credits include A&E Television’s 100 Centre Street, created by Sidney Lumet, for which she also wrote; and the web series All Downhill From Here. Susanna has written several award-winning television movies for Hallmark Hall of Fame and Lifetime; and written for the TV series Borgia, created by Tom Fontana. Susanna’s previous documentary, the award-winning 9/12: From Chaos to Community about the volunteer effort at Ground Zero, was also a collaboration with Jacki Ochs. She has published nonfiction prose in The Yale Revue, Spin Magazine, Real Simple Magazine, and The New York Times. Susanna teaches Screenwriting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Jacki Ochs (producer) is an award winning documentary producer and director. Her film <i>Vietnam: The Secret Agent</i> premiered at New York Film Festival and won Special Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival. Her <i>Letters Not About Love</i> won the Best Feature Documentary at SXSW Film Festival. Her work has been seen and broadcast worldwide. Jacki executive produced Keith Beauchamp’s Emmy nominated <i>Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till</i> which won the Freedom of Expression Award from the National Board of Review, and Kristi Zea’s <i>Everybody Knows … Elizabeth Murray</i>. Jacki has been the recipient of the Guggenheim and two MacDowell Colony Fellowships and has been Executive Director of the Human Arts Association, a fiscal sponsoring organization for art and media-based productions, since 1977. She is Adjunct Professor at Pratt Institute’s Film/Video department.
