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DIRECTOR | SUSAN DYNNER
Award-winning Director/Producer/Writer Susan Dynner, a recent Sundance Stories of Change Fellow, is gearing up to direct/produce “Iris”, a short psychological drama written by and starring Sile Bermingham, as a proof of concept for a feature version.
Following that, she’ll direct/produce “Fall of Eden”, starring Dylan McDermott and Brianna Hildebrand, as well as “Spellbound”, a TV docuseries about women in magic that she created.
Before that, she directed/produced, “Code Blue: A Love Story” starring Andy Dick, for which she was awarded the Sony Pictures Television Diverse Directing Fellowship. She produced “Free Ride”, starring Anna Paquin and Drea de Matteo (she was a Film Independent Producing Fellow), the documentary, “After Porn Ends”, and she produced/ directed “Punk’s Not Dead”, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and received critical acclaim on the festival circuit, followed by a theatrical world-wide release.
She was also a producer on “Brick”, winner of the Sundance Film Festival, released by Focus Features. Susan was a TransAtlantic Partners Producing Fellow, a Producer’s Guild Power of Diversity Mentor and was just selected by Blackmagic Collective as one of nine filmmakers for their Future Studio Directors Fellowship.
As a Development Executive, Dynner worked for Charlie Sheen and Nick Cassavetes’ Ventura Films as VP of Creative Affairs, and Wolfgang Petersen’s Radiant Productions. Dynner began her career working for Richard Donner Productions and Di Novi Pictures. Prior to that, she was an award-winning band photographer from the age of fifteen, and she is currently a Magician Member of the world-famous Magic Castle. Aberration Films has many projects in various stages of development.