Susan Dynner began her career at the age of fifteen as a band photographer when she started photographing bands such as The UK Subs, Minor Threat, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag as well as UB40, Psychedelic Furs, Squeeze and many more. Her photos have been published on album covers, in books, on t-shirts, and in magazines.

After earning her degree at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dynner moved to Los Angeles, where she held various positions, including jobs at Touchstone, Richard Donner Productions, and Wolfgang Petersen’s Radiant Productions. Later, she joined Charlie Sheen and Nick Casavettes’ Ventura Films as VP of Creative Affairs, before leaving to join Steve Herzberg as a Producer and VP of Development/Production for Prairiefire Films, who had deals with Sony and AOL.

In 2000, Dynner teamed up with producer Mark Mathis, and together they formed Stillwater Films. There, they produced the feature film Brick, written and directed by Rian Johnson, and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Lucas Haas. Brick won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the Sundance Film Festival, 2005, and was released by Focus Features.

Most recently, Dynner formed Aberration Films, and under that banner, released Punk’s Not Dead, a documentary feature that she directed, produced and shot. The film, which premiered at the AFI SilverDocs Film Festival, has received much acclaim. Celebrated by critics from Variety to The Hollywood Reporter to the LA Times, it went on to screen at many more prestigious festivals, including Melbourne, Copenhagen, Buenos Aires, San Francisco, and AFI Dallas, before its theatrical run (32 US cities and worldwide distribution).

Dynner just completed post-production on the feature documentary, Exxxit: Life After Porn (scheduled to be released in winter, 2010), and was recently hired to direct the narrative feature film, Blank Nation. Aberration Films currently has several other projects in various stages of development, including Free Ride, written and to be directed by Shana Sosin.