SUSANNAH GENT

DIRECTOR– WRITER (UN. KINGDOM)

SUSANNAH GENT

Susannah Gent has been writing and directing films for 10 years and has made over a dozen short films.

She studied animation at Liverpool before joining the Northern Media School, Sheffield for an MA in film production.


Filmography

Feature Films:

  • 2004 Jelly Dolly,

Shorts and TV productions:

  • 1993: Thread (Silver Plaque Award, Chicago Intercom Festival 1994, Best Short Film Award, Twentieth Century Vox Festival 1993)
  • 1994: Black Bag (Best Short Film Award, Festival International De Cine Realizado Por Mujeres 1995, Silver Plaque Award, Chicago Intercom Festival 1995, Zonal Award for Best Use of Sound, Fuji Film Scholarship 1994), The Bather, Blowfly
  • 1995: Melvyn's Pencils (Silver Hugo Award, Chicago International Film Festival 1996)
  • 1996: Blue Movie
  • 1998: Bun (Special Commendation Award, Hamburg Film Festival 1999)
  • 1999: Bedhead
  • 2001: Planet Arse

Films in progress:

  • Membra Disjecta: feature length film script developed with ARISTA screen writers lab and the Yorkshire Media Production Agency
  • The Leaving Party: a new script collaboration with Tom Salmon commissioned by Screen Yorkshire