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Susan Youssef is the writer/director of two dramatic features, a documentary, and seven shorts that have been official selections of film festivals such as Venice, Toronto International, and Sundance, as well as have been programmed in museums including Tate Modern, New Museum, and Museum of Modern Art - New York.
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- Susan Youssef
Mar 11, 2019 · At this month's Miami International Film Festival, following the world premiere of her second film, Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf, director Susan Youssef watched the audience cry during the end credit sequence and thought to herself: "It makes 17 years of work worth it."
Susan Kathryn Youssef is an Australian writer and actor who works in television, on radio and stage. She is best known for her appearances in the television series The Project, Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Susan Youssef is best known for her dramatic features "Habibi” and “Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf”, streaming now on Netflix. Her work on "Habibi” has won her awards internationally, including NETPAC and FIPRESCI prizes. “Marjoun” was featured on Sundance’s “9 Essential Independant Films”.
Susan Youssef. New York. Susan Youssef is the writer/director of two dramatic features, a documentary, and seven shorts that have been official selections of film festivals such as Venice, Toronto International, and Sundance, as well as have been programmed in museums including Tate Modern, New Museum, and Museum of Modern Art - New York.
Susan Youssef is a director who launched her career with short films premiering at Sundance Film Festival, and documentaries at Museum of Modern Art (NY) and New Museum. With grant support from Doha Film Institute, Susan's two fiction features have shown at Toronto International, Venice, and Cannes.
Aug 29, 2015 · Habibi director Susan Yousseff has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund her new feature, Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf, with the support of the Sundance Film Festival. Sundance is hosting the campaign on its curated Kickstarter page after the short version of the film attracted significant attention at this year's festival.
