Talent Guide

Jennifer Suhr

  • Discipline:Director, Writer
  • Program Year:Fast Track 2016, Grants and Awards 2016

Bio

Jennifer Cho Suhr is a New York-based writer/director developing her first feature, You and Me Both, which has been supported by the Tribeca Film Institute, NALIP, and Film Independent. She is a member of OneFifty, Time Warner’s content incubator and is currently creating an animated short with Frederator and Sony Animation. Her feature script, Out There, was selected for NYU’s Purple List, a shortlist of the best screenplays written by NYU students and alums. Previously, Suhr created a web series for Subway and My Damn Channel (IFC at SXSW) and co-created the acclaimed web series American Viral starring Michael Showalter for Thundershorts.com. Jennifer received her BA from Yale University in American Studies and Ethnicity, Race & Migration and her MFA from NYU’s Graduate Film Program where she was awarded the Tisch Fellowship, the Spike Lee Film Production Grant and the Clive Davis Award.

Current Project

You and Me Both (Narrative Feature)

Logline

Upon the death of their adoptive mother, two Korean American sisters, estranged by the older one's drug addiction, set out on a road trip to find their birth mother.