Su-City Pictures East




The Screenplay Doctor The Movie Mechanic The Film Strategists

Services

"Susan has the uncommon ability to take her vast experience and bring it to bear on a project in a candid yet nurturing way. Her advice is absolutely invaluable."

Alfred Thomas Catalfo
Screenwriter, 2003 Nantucket Film Festival winner for two scripts, finalist in seven International screenwriting competitions.

Founded in 1990, Su-City Pictures East offers complete motion picture consulting at any stage of your project. Award-winning screenwriter & filmmaker, Tufts instructor, author of The Savvy Screenwriter: How to Sell Your Screenplay (and Yourself) Without Selling Out! and chairperson of Su-City Pictures East, Susan Kouguell, brings her extensive experience to this unique resource geared to the specific needs of screenwriters, filmmakers, and industry professionals.

With over 1,000 clients worldwide, Su-City Pictures East works with screenwriters, filmmakers, agents, producers, directors, and the major studios including, Warner Bros., Miramax Films and Fine Line Features.

Su-City Pictures East takes a creative and practical approach in assisting writers turn ideas into movies, a production team struggling though rewrites, directors looking for "a third eye" in post-production, distributors making final decisions before release, or an independent producer seeking hands-on production advice.

Su-City Pictures East has the experience to help energize your project by:

analyzing screenplays

refining & restructuring films-in-progress and newly acquired films set for release

analyzing and assisting in writing loglines, synopses, treatments, and queries, and preparing pitches

strategizing game plans

offering rewrites

Su-City Pictures East screenwriting clients won or were finalists at many competitions, including: Nicholls, Sundance Labs, Chesterfield, American Screenwriters Association, Nantucket, Austin, Writer’s Network, New York Drama League, and Beigel.

Su-City Pictures East filmmaking clients won or were the official selection at many international festivals, including: London International, South by Southwest, and Los Angeles Independent Film Festival. Film awards include

Kevin Bacon’s Losing Chase (Golden Globe Best Actress: Helen Mirren, Globe Nominee Beau Bridges)

Tag Purvis’s Red Dirt (Slam Dunk: Best Actors Karen Black/Walton Goggins; Chicago Gay & Lesbian Fest: Best Dramatic Feature; Beverly Hills International: Best Director)

Jay Chandrasekhar’s Puddle Cruiser (Hamptons Grand Prize, Sundance Official Selection)

Jane Spencer’s Little Noises (Sundance Grand Jury nominee)

Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s Brother’s Keeper (Sundance Audience Award/Grand Jury nominee)

Su-City Pictures East clients have:

won international (short & feature) film festivals.

received production deals with HBO and Showtime.

had their scripts optioned by Disney and other studios.

received staged readings for The Fifth Night at the Nuyorican Poets Café, Theatre Row, and the Ensemble Studio Theatre, et al.

signed with agents.

received studio contracts.

had their movies distributed.

gone places and eaten things.

SU-CITY PICTURES EAST has gained a reputation for being the objective eye a writer, filmmaker or film executive needs to break through to greater success.