Susanne
Preissler

about the jury

Susanne Preissler is Independent Media’s founding partner and executive producer. The company has an exclusive focus on “crossover” talent from film and television and brings together the very best of advertising and entertainment to produce award-winning campaigns of unusual impact, sophistication and style.

Independent Media directors helm initiatives around the world and across the media spectrum. The productions – ranging from brand integrated content to feature length films – have competed at Sundance and TIFF and enjoye numerous awards at Cannes, AICP, British D&AD and the Primetime Emmy Awards, among others.

Susanne’s professional experience traverses both advertising agencies and production companies and her resume includes award winning television campaigns along with feature films that have competed at prestigious film festivals. As a former executive producer at Propaganda Films and a division head at Ridley Scott Creative Group (formerly RSA), Susanne has overseen hundreds of productions that have filmed around the globe, from Los Angeles to London, Santiago to Melbourne, to Beijing and beyond.

Susanne has represented and produced for such notable directors Sydney Pollack (The Interpreter), Anthony Minghella (The Talented Mr. Ripley), Alfonso Cuaron (Roma, Gravity), Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), Doug Liman (The Instigators, The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow), Matt Reeves (Planet of the Apes, The Batman), Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk, One Night in Miami), Tucker Gates (Homeland, The Morning Show), Jamie Babbit (Only Murders In The Building, Silicon Valley, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Claire Scanlon (Palm Royale, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Janusz Kaminski (West Side Story, Ready Player One, Saving Private Ryan), Jean Pierre Jeunet (Amelie), Guillermo Arriaga (Babel), David Ayer (Fury, Suicide Squad), Kevin Bray (Loot, Succession, Insecure), and Sian Heder (CODA, Orange is the New Black), just to name a few.