Filmmaker Suzanne Jurva
__Suzanne Jurva is a unique filmmaker with a clear vision and a gift of
bringing a broad range of experience in documentaries, feature film and television from concept to the screen. She has been involved in all forms of storytelling, from Tom Hanks' large screen IMAX film Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon to producing and developing for the smallest media, the mobile phone, as co-founder of Starcut, content media aggregator for Nokia Mobile Phones. In between the two extremes of media and technology, Suzanne worked as a feature film development executive at DreamWorks-SKG creating and heading the research department working on: Saving Private Ryan, Amistad, Minority Report, AI, The Lost World, Gladiator, Prince of Egypt, The Peacemaker, Deep Impact, Men in Black, and The Lookout. Suzanne award-winning work has been seen on PBS, NBC News, Fox, MTV, BBC, and her films have been selected as part of the Ojai International Film Festival, Houston International Film Festival, Northern Lights Film Festival, ReelHeARTS Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, among others. One of 50 civilians chosen from leadership positions throughout the US, Suzanne was a member of the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference 61. She attended Air War College and was elected as an OutstandingYoung Alumni and inducted into the Academy of Arts and Sciences at Michigan Technological University. |
