Susan Emshwiller
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POLLOCK 
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Academy Award winning feature film in 2001 for Brant/Allen Productions Directed by Ed Harris 
Written by Susan Emshwiller and Barbara Turner
Starring Ed Harris, Marcia Gaye Harden, Amy Madigan, Tom Bower, Jeffrey Tambor
Biographical film tells the story of American painter Jackson Pollock. 
THE FURNACE 
Comic Thriller 

Winner of the Hollywood Gateway Screenplay Contest Grand Prize.
Bitter and haunted, Vietnam Vet, Clay Bodie, has banished himself deep into the vast sizzling wasteland of the Nevada desert.  Into this comes Lilly, desperate for help.  She’s got a multi-million dollar winning lottery ticket and two killers on her trail.  Shooting down into Clay’s ramshackle homestead: the killers trap Clay and Lilly, and make swiss cheese of the water tank, truck, and generator.  Then they sit back with their Pelegrino waters and sun umbrellas and wait for the desert to do the killing for them.  It’s only a matter of time before Clay and Lilly will be, literally, toast.  Will Clay be coward he’s always been, or will he rise above his shameful past and turn the desert he knows so well into a weapon to save them both?
LE DIAMANT NOIR
(The Black Diamond)
 Comedy caper   

When the world’s largest truffle is found in the French countryside and a Los Angeles restaurateur is going to pay top dollar for it, each French villager who knows of it, wants to be the one that sells it.  Greed gets the better of them all, and the truffle is stolen again and again between these flawed folks.  Yet, when it comes to life and death, these unlikely heroes are willing to sacrifice their dreams of wealth.  In giving up what they want, they end up getting what they need.  
"Sometimes the thing you need the most is right under your nose."
Screenplays:
Best Friend - romantic comedy 
Brain Freeze - (co-writer: Guillaume Tunzini) -  comedy thriller 
Flirting with Fear - (co-writer: Guillaume Tunzini) - thriller
Cul du Sac - (co-writer: Guillaume Tunzini) -  comedy
The Adjustors - (co-writer: Guillaume Tunzini) -  TV series 
Geek Beach - (co-writer:  Guillaume Tunzini) - comedy 
Le Diamant Noir -  comedy   
In the Land of Milk and Money - was produced feature film in 2004 - Susan Emshwiller directing
Pollock - (co-writer: Barbara Turner) - produced feature film in 2000 for Brant/Allen Productions - Ed Harris directing
Cloverleaf - character drama 
The Furnace - comedy/thriller - official juried selection of IFP/Market 2004, Grand Prize Winner of Hollywood Gateway Screenwriting Contest 2005
Six Old Men but Cool - comedy thriller 
The Wild Blue - comedy based on French film Quelques Jours Avec Moi - for Big Town Productions - Bill Pullman producer 
Hole in the Day - drama based on story by Christopher Tilghman - for Big Town Productions - Bill Pullman producer 
Dog Town - thriller based on novel by Mercedes Lambert - for Amer Productions - Amy Madigan producer 
In the Palm of His Hand - short - mystery
Breakfast Messages - short comedy - produced in 1988 - Susan Emshwiller directing
Cement Shoes  - comedy 
Burger World  - comedy social satire 
Blind Sight  - romantic comedy 
Cowboy Fiction  - comedy thriller
Yoshi - (co-written with George Bayer) 
Off-Night - (co-written with George Bayer) produced in 1983 - 35mm -40 minutes 


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