| Chairperson and founder of Su-City Pictures East, Susan Kouguell, brings
her extensive experience to this unique resource geared to the specific
needs of screenwriters, filmmakers, and motion picture executives and
agents.
Susan Kouguell is a screenwriter and filmmaker, whose six
internationally acclaimed short films have been presented in major festivals and international museums.
Film/Screenplay Honors
 Sundance Institute Screenwriters Laboratory - Finalist (Twice)
Whitney Museum Biennial
Museum of Modern Art permanent collection and archives
The MacDowell Colony - Film/Screenwriting Fellow
Bucks County Film Festival - Best Narrative Prize
Marburg International Film Festival - The Unica Prize -
Most Outstanding Film - Two additional top prizes
T. Edison Black Maria Film Festival - Two-time
Top Prize Winner
SUNY Purchase collection
PEN Grant
The Edward Albee Foundation - Screenwriting Fellow
Baltimore International Film Festival - Prize Winner
Art Matters, Inc. - Screenwriting Grant
Cummington Community for the Arts - Screenwriting Fellow
New York Foundation for the Arts - Production Grant
Jerome Foundation - Film Production Grant
Creative Artists Public Service Grant (CAPS) - Film
Production Grant
Artists Space - Screening Grant
Brooklyn Arts & Cultural Association (BACA) - Five Film
Production Grants
Screenwriting Credits
Stingers - Feature film adaptation of novel by and for William
G. Griffiths. (Optioned.)
The Suicide Club - Feature film, original screenplay, adaptation
of Robert Louis Stevenson's short story . Co-written with Carl Capotorto starring Mariel Hemingway - Anjelica Films
Murder One - Wrote
voiceover narration for Miramax Films,
starring Henry Thomas
Dakota - Wrote
voiceover narration for Miramax Films, starring
Lou Diamond Phillips
Duke's In Heaven - Original screenplay by Susan Kouguell
(Sundance Screenwriters Lab Finalist)
Breathing for a While - Original screenplay by Susan Kouguell
(Sundance Screenwriters Lab Finalist)
I.O.U.
- Feature film rewrite for Ringlevision Entertainment
There by the Grace
- Feature film rewrite for August/Stakoch
Productions.
June Bride
- Feature film rewrite for August/Stakoch
Productions.
Madame Golinda - Feature film rewrite for NiteLite Productions.
Red Hawk
- Feature film rewrite for Midnight Sun Productions.
January Resolutions - Feature film rewrite for Frankel
Productions.
Mars - Feature film rewrite for Norador
Productions - Adaptation of Fritz Zorn's book Mars.
Fields of Deception - Feature film rewrite for Pulsar
Entertainment.
St. Tony's
- Feature film rewrite for Foot In The Door
Productions.
Wetlands - Feature film rewrite for Tri-Coastal Films.
Film Production
Rum & Coke - Associate Producer/Script Consultant - Feature
film written and directed by Maria Escobedo. A Rain Forest Films
Production - 2000
Where the Rivers Flow North - Associate Producer/Script
Consultant - Feature Film directed by Jay Craven starring Rip Torn, Tantoo Cardinal and Michael J. Fox - 1994
And the Pursuit of Happiness - Production Coordinator/
Research/Crew - Feature documentary directed by Louis Malle - 1986
Industry Seminar Panelist
Screenwriters Expo “Business of Screenwriting” workshops (two years)
Scr(i)pt Magazine's Pitch Xchange: pitching panelist and Query
Letter Workshops (two years)
New England Women in Film & TV: "The Business of
Screenwriting."
NH Film Expo: "Pitching Your Project."
Cambridge
Center for Adult Learning "Screenwriting
Seminar" Panelist.
Northern Essex Community College: "Overview of
Screenwriting."
Northern Essex Community College: “Business of Screenwriting.”
New England Women in Film & TV: "The Craft of
Screenwriting: From Conception to Production."
Harvard Square Screenwriters: "The Business of
Screenwriting."
Rhode Island Int'l Film Festival's ScriptBiz Conference:
"Selling to Hollywood."
Grub Street Writers - "The Business of Screenwriting."
Grub Street Writers - "Overview of
Screenwriting."
IFP/WGA - "From Script to Screen" and "Pitching
Your Project"
New York Women In Film & TV - Live Story Edit Workshop
(Three Workshops)
New England Screenwriters Conference - "Producing and
Directing Your Own Film" and script consultant.
Writers Guild of America Screen Conference -
"Pitching" and
"Screenplay Analysis."
Directors Guild of America - "Concept to Production
Forum."
The New School for Social Research - "The Business of
Screenwriting."
Emerson College "Industry Panel."
The Reel School "Business of Screenwriting Workshop"
(three workshops.)
New Hampshire Writers Project "The Art of Rewriting."
Boston Film & Video Foundation "Business of
Screenwriting" and "Rewriting Your Script" (5 workshops.)
Cambridge
Center for Adult Learning - "The Business of
Screenwriting (4 workshops.)
New York University - "The Business of Screenwriting"
and "Rewriting Your Script."
New England Screenwriters Conference - "The Business
of Screenwriting."
MovieMaker Magazine's Ultimate Screenwriters Workshop -"Getting an Agent."
Independent Feature Film Market - "Synopsis Writing"
and "Industry Update."
IFP's The Art & Business of Screenwriting - "Are We
There Yet?" and "Pitching Your Project."
Independents Day Seminar (IFP) - "If I Knew Then What I
Know Now."
Hunter College - "Business of Screenwriting."
Motion Picture Pro Inc. "Business of Screenwriting."
Atlantic Film Producers Conference, P.E.I. Canada -
"Pitching
Your Project."
New York Women in Film & TV - Screenplay reading moderator.
Independent Feature Project's Tricks of the Trade -
"Rewrite Is Not A Dirty Word" and "Pitching."
SUNY Purchase - "Poets and Visual Artists
Collaboration."
Media Xchange Seminar for foreign producers on rewriting and
distribution in the U.S.
Brooklyn College - "Women in the Arts."
Visiting Artist
Phillips Exeter Academy
St. Paul's Academy
Sparta Alpine Cultural Enrichment Program - 5 Script Workshops
Temple University - Film Colloquium
Brooklyn College - "Women in the Arts"
SUNY Purchase - Poets and Visual Artists Collaboration
Judge
Maine Screenwriting Competition
Emerson College - Screenwriting Competition
IFP Biegel Screenwriting Awards
D'eassau Screenwriting Awards - School of Visual Arts
ACE Awards (National Academy of Cable Programming)
American Film Festival
Thomas Edison Black Maria Festival
Brooklyn Arts & Cultural Association Filmsearch
Other Film-Related Employment
Independent Feature Project/WGA Screenwriters Conference -
Consulted on the Beigel Awards and offered consultations to all
screenwriting registrants - 1995
Independent Feature Film Market - In conjunction with the
Independent Feature Project, Su-City Pictures East developed the screenplay section, and offered consultations to all
script directory registrants - 1992-1995
Warner Brothers - Consultant/Buyer for the Independent
Feature Film Market - 1988-1993
Punch Productions (Dustin Hoffman's
company) - Story Analyst - 1990
Miramax Films - Writer and story analyst - 1987-1990
Republic Pictures - Consultant/Buyer for the 1992 IFFM
Independent Feature Film Market - Buyer Liaison - Worked with
filmmakers and international film buyers/distributors/producers
looking to buy/sell feature films/videos for all markets -
1987-1988.
Paramount Pictures - Free-Lancer - 1984-1986
Teaching
Tufts University - Instructor - Beginning and Advanced
Screenwriting, International Women Directors.
2000-Present.
Purchase College - Instructor - Business of Writing. 2004 & 2005.
Screenwriters Online - Classes include Story, Screenplay,
Query, Scene Works, Business of Screenwriting, and Master Classes. 2001-Present
Harvard University Extension School - Instructor-
Beginning and Advanced Screenwriting. 1998 – 2000.
Antioch University- Instructor/Committee Member of
Individualized Masters Program: Screenwriting & Sitcom
Writing. 2000-2005
School of Visual Arts - Adjunct Professor -
Screenwriting Master Class, Beginning and Advanced Screenwriting
- Created Master Class for Screenwriters and The Business of
Screenwriting classes. Thesis Advisor in Screenwriting and Film
Production - 1993-1996
Published Writing
The Savvy Screenwriter: How to Sell Your Screenplay (and Yourself)
Without Selling Out! (Revised and
Updated Edition published by St. Martin’s Press 2006.)
MovieMaker
Magazine- "Screenwriters Checklist"
Scr(i)pt
Magazine: - "Query Letters: Keys to Unlocking Doors to Hollywood"
Writers Digest Magazine -Screenwriting Secrets Issue: - "The Quest for a Winning
Query"
MovieMaker
Magazine- "Hottest First-Time Hollywood Scribes Tell All!"
Ex Libris
- "Who is Your Audience"
Scr(i)pt
EZINE:
- "The Most Commonly Posed Questions About Spec Scripts - and
Answers!"
Scripteaser.com:
- "Treating the Treatment Right!"
Scr(i)pt
EZINE:
- "What to Do and Not Do at a Pitch Meeting"
Scr(i)pt
EZINE:
- "Ready, Set, Go"
Scr(i)pt
Magazine: - "What to Do and Not Do at a Pitch Meeting"
Scripteaser.com:
- "Always Be Prepared to Pitch" & "The Right and Wrong Places to
Pitch"
Off Hollywood Report - Article on Buyers at the Independent
Feature Film Market - Profile of The Samuel Goldwyn Company - Profile
of Republic Pictures
Lamaze Family Magazine: - article on families overcoming adversity
The Crack'd Mirror
- Literary/Art Magazine - Poems
Feminism Film - Seven Writings for Experimental Film
Comin' Up
- Children's Magazine - Interviews
Music (ASCAP Member - Librettist
Librettist - "Praisemaker" commissioned chorus and
orchestra piece for the 1997 Cincinnati May Festival Chorus for composer Alvin
Singleton with performances in 1997 and 2003 under the
direction of James Conlon, and in 2002 under the direction
of Richard Spano with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Librettist - "Braver Than the Other" music by Jon
Elliott premiered at St. Mark's Church, New York City - 1991.
Librettist - "The World
is Here With Me" music by
Alvin Singleton premiered at Spelman College - 1990
Violist - New Amsterdam Symphony and New York
Symphonies - Concert Tours to South America and the Far East
Professional Affiliations
New York Women in Film and Television
New England Women in Film and Video
Independent Feature Project (IFP)
ASCAP (Librettist)
Education
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study
Program - Studio Program - Film/Writing
State University of New York College at Purchase - B.A.
Jung Institute - Zurich, Switzerland
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