Writer & Director
Susie DeFord is a passionate and focused filmmaker with an interest in underrepresented voices, primarily the stories of women 40+.
As an educator and mentor she's on a mission to level the playing field for storytellers from all backgrounds. Able to utilize smartphone filmmaking and other budget conscious technology to create innovative narratives.
Life in Transition
A perimenopausal punk and a trans woman struggle through a 2nd puberty while fighting to keep an elder women's rights activist from losing her home.
Feature Film in Development
I Contain Multitudes
A punk poet & adult adoptee helps her teenage nephew deal with his abandonment by dealing with her own.
Feature Film Script in Progress
The Accidental Dog Walker
Lessons on life and love from a 60-year-old dog walker in Washington, D.C.
Dogumentary Short
You Can't Take Her Out
A Sita Gomez Story
An unknown 90-year-old Cuban American artist finally gets her due via determined novice filmmaker Susie DeFord.
Documentary Short
Smartphone Filmmaking
Community workshops in the DMV coming soon!