Suzanne Crocker

Drift Productions Inc.

Box #829

Dawson City, Yukon

Y0B 1G0

(867) 993-6842

SUMMARY:

Suzanne Crocker is an award winning independent filmmaker who has lived in the Yukon for 25 years. Suzanne directs and produces her films through her Yukon production company Drift Productions Inc.

  • Feature Films:
  • All The Time In The World (2014) Director/Producer/Cinematographer for this feature length documentary which has screened around the world
  • Winner of 22 festival awards (9 Audience Choice Awards, 4 Best Picture Awards, 7 Environmental Awards, 6 Youth Awards) from Canada, USA, Mexico, Australia, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, Brazil
  • Most Popular Canadian Documentary:Vancouver International Film Festival (2014)
  • Top 20 Audience Picks: Hot Docs Film Festival (2015)
  • Best Feature Film: Victoria Film Festival (2015)
  • Theatrical screenings in Canada, USA, UK, Australia, and Israel
  • broadcast in Canada (Super Channel), Japan (NHK), Korea, Sweden, Turkey, Portugal, Estonia, Slovenia and Portugal
  • translated into 11 languages
  • First Yukon film to be selected for the Telefilm Microbudget Programme
  • successful distribution: broadcast, theatrical, community screenings, educational, dvd sales and digital on iTunes and Vimeo On Demand
  • First We Eat: Food Security North of 60
  • Director/Producer/Cinematographer
  • Documentary currently in Production, expected completion 2019
  • Short Films:
  • Created ten independent short films between 2008 – 2010
  • Five shorts were official selections at Film Festivals; three have won festival awards; one of these went on an exhibition tour in the Picturing the Yukon Series
  • Two shorts, created as psa’s, were aired on CBC North
  • Independent short films include stop-motion animation, hand-drawn animation, experimental and dramatic shorts, mostly on video with some work on 16 mm

Suzanne Crocker retired from her career as a family physician in 2008 in order to follow her passion for filmmaking.

FILMOGRAPHY OF INDEPENDENT FILMS:

Title / Role, Length, Format / Venue / Date
First We Eat:
Food Security North of 60 / Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Sound Recordist, Assistant Editor
HD Video / Currently in Production / 2019
All The Time In The World / Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Sound Recordist, Assistant Editor
87:45 HD Video / -Film Festivals – national and international
-Theatrical – national and international
-Broadcast – national and international
-Educational Distribution – national and international
-Multi Award Winner – nationally & internationally / 2014
Time Lines / Director, Animator, Editor
3:30 Video
Hand-drawn animation / -Film Festivals: 6 Can, 4 US, 1 European
-Award Winner / 2010
Bead psa / Director, Animator, Editor
0:59 Video
Stop-motion animation / -Winner Dawson City International Film Festival psa competition
-Aired CBC TV / 2010
L’hiver Yukonaisse / Director, Camera, Animator, Editor
3:00 Music video.
Live action/animation / -48 Hour Film Competition, Dawson City, YT / 2010
Life is a Highway / Director, Camera, Editor
1:00 16mm film
Live action short / -Dawson City 1 minute Film Challenge / 2010
Skip / Director, Camera, Editor
1:30 16 mm film Bolex
Live action short / -Student Film 16 mm Film Course, Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, YT / 2010
Like / Director, Camera, Editor
1:00 Video
Live action Short / -Dawson City 1 minute Film Challenge
-Award Winner: Best Film / 2009
Winter Coral psa / Director, Camera, Editor
0:59 Video
Experimental / -Dawson City International Short Film Festival psa Contest
-Aired CBC TV / 2009
Sock Hop / Director, Animator, Editor
2:30 Video
Stop-motion animation / -Dawson City International Short Film Fest
-Picturing the Yukon Film Series / 2009
Dawson Sole / Director, Writer, Editor
2:30 Video
Live action short / -Dawson City International Short Film Fest
-Yellowknife Film Festival / 2009
Short and Silly / Director, Animator, Editor
1:00 Video
Stop-motion animation / -Dawson City International Short Film Festival / 2008