Suzi is a freelance filmmaker and a secondary school teacher. She is passionate about film, music and storytelling. She is a deep believer in the power of film, as a fusion of all these things, to challenge, communicate and inspire on diverse issues - social justice, political, Indigenous, among many. Her first doco, 'Damo' won 'Best Documentary' at the St Kilda Film Festival in 2003 and 'Best Australian Film' in the International Big Issue Film Festival. It was about a man's journey from ten years of homelessness and heroin abuse to a stable life selling the Big Issue on the streets of Melbourne .

Form more than a year now, Suzi has been teaching at an Aboriginal school called Yipirinya, in Alice Springs . She says, “It's been a confronting, wonderful and intense adventure. My students have taught me how to dig for witchetty grubs, find honey ants and even how to hunt and cook echidna without getting spiked! They've taught me more than I could possibly try to cram into a paragraph. Last year I made a doco with two of the girls I taught, on their daily lives, their trips 'out bush', their dreams for the future and their present realities. This year I am furthering my film-making education with full-time studies in Melbourne .

“My thoughts on altruism are that it's all there is. We're born human beings by default, but we choose to be humane beings. Kindness, compassion and altruism, despite being integral to our spiritual and physical survival on earth, is celebrated and nurtured too little by the current institutions of media, education and politics.”