Episode 31. Ins and outs of indie filmmaking with writer-director Susan Skoog. Part 2

In part 2 we continue our conversation with Susan Skoog. She is a filmmaker and screenwriter who wrote, produced, and directed an indie feature film "Whatever" which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. and was released theatrically by Sony Pictures Classics. "Whatever" stars Liza Weil (Gilmore Girls, How To Get Away with Murder) and Frederic Forrest (Apocalypse Now, The Conversation). Susan has written screenplays for Warner Brothers, HBO and MTV Films among others, working with such esteemed producers as John Wells (ER, The West Wing, August: Osage County) Ron Yerxa and Albert Berger, (Cold Mountain, Election, Little Miss Sunshine), and George Pelecanos (The Deuce, The Wire). Inaddition to working on indie films,Susan has also had a successful career as a writer, director, and producer of numerous documentary and non-fiction programs for such television networks as VH1, Turner Network Television, Turner Classic Movies, AMC, FX, MTV, CBS, Fuse, Rave HD, TBS, Tru TV/Court TV and PBS. Susan was the series producer for VH-1’s weekly film program FLIX as well as the producer and director for many of that network’s ACE Award winning series, VH1to One. Furthermore, Susan co-directed and edited an hour-long documentary for PBS on George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, One Nation Under a Groove, which aired in 2006. Her award-winning scripted digital series, Breeding Grounds, was included in IFP’s Screen Forward Lab and the No Borders section of Film Week, and all of the episodes premiered at the Montclair Film Festival and have screened a numerous film festivals. Her most recent film, Dog Walker, stars Emily Bergl (Shameless, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Mindhunter) and is currently screening at film and content festivals across the country.