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Susan Marie Klos (born May 16, 1955) is an entrepreneur, producer.[1], screenwriter[2] and homeless and mental health advocate[3].
Early life
[edit]Susan grew up the oldest of eight children in North Massapequa on Long Island, New York. After graduating from Painedge High School (1972), susan attended SUNY at Stony Brook (1972-1974) studying biochemistry. When she realized the Nobel Prize for medicine was not in her future, she moved to Los Angeles in 1974 to pursue a career in the film industry.
Susan "couch surfed" while working various positions behind film crews for more than 25 UCLA and American Film Institute student films including Alan Beattie's Academy Award nominated short "Double Talk," Peter Werner's Academy Award winning short "In the Region of Ice," and Danny DeVito's short, "Minestrone" all while working nights as assistant manager at Laemmle's Regent Theater in Westwood. Having gained experience and notability for her work, she was accepted by the American Film Institute as the second woman Fellow in Cinematography (1975-1976).
In 1977, Susan put her budding career behind the camera on hold to start a family.
Career
[edit]Owner and President - Big Time Picture Company, Inc.
[edit]In 1978, working from home with an infant son and pregnant with her daughter, Susan started Big Time Picture Company[4] serving as an agent to individuals who owned KEM 35mm flatbed film editing equipment arranging long-term rentals with major motion picture studios. Some of her first customers were Steven Spielberg's 1941, Michael Wadleigh's Wolfen, and Alex Cox's RepoMan. The company eventually acquired an inventory of nearly 50 machines. She was the first woman to enter this aspect of post production in the Hollywood film industry.
In 1982 when the company outgrew its home office and moved into basement offices at Lionsgate Studios (later Todd A-O and Skywalker Sound) in West Los Angeles, Big Time Picture Company became a California corporation. Susan began hiring employees to help with the increased workload.
Within two years. Big Time expanded yet once again by leasing 5,000 square feet of warehouse space across the street from Lionsgate at 12210-1/2 Nebraska Ave. in West Los Angeles. The company's rental inventory now also included traditional editing equipment rentals, including Moviolas, benches, bins, racks, and more. Big Time also started reselling editorial supplies and introduces a film coding service.
The company developed the new warehouse space into custom, fully equipped film editing suites that attracted Oliver Stone in his directorial debut Salvador. Others soon followed, including Born on the Fourth of July, There's Something About Mary, Selena, What Women Want and many more. The company was one of the first to bring filmmakers to West Los Angeles and away from the traditional Burbank and Hollywood locations.
In 1989, the company further expanded its services to filmmakers by adding an additional 5,000 square feet, including a state-of-the-art screening room capable of Dolby sound (A&SR), dual interlock, and superior technical presentation in an intimate atmosphere.
In 1991, with the departure of New World Pictures from the last wing of the building, the company expanded again by 5,000 square feet, thereby occupying the entire 15,000 square feet with rentals of 40 production and post production office suites, 6 operations offices and a technical shop area where Big Time Picture Company remained until 2010.
Big Time Picture Company Inc. evolved from 35mm film services into the digital age adding state-of-the-art digital projection to the screening room, rentals of Avid and Final Cut editing systems, Apple computer sales as a Professional Video Value-added Reseller and other peripheral post production services.
Big Time not only became known for its post production services, but also a unique culture. Dogs, cats and kids were welcome. Regular social events included Bagel Mondays, Friday Wine Tasting, parking lot barbecues, Director Du Jour series, where directors working at Big Time would share their favorite movie in a special screening, the 1988 Golden Core Awards for assistant film editors, in contrast to American Cinema Editor's Eddy Awards, and the "I'll Show You Mine, If You Show Me Yours" annual short film festival, which ran for six years, for industry professionals working at Big Time to share their student films.
With Hollywood's post production moving from 35mm film to digital in the 1990's much less office space was necessary to edit feature films. Post production started moving away from facilities into guest houses and homes of directors or editors. The Big Time 15,000 square foot facility was too large for changing digital times, so in 2010 Big Time moved into smaller offices in Santa Monica. Big Time eventually closed its doors in 2012.
- Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July, Salvador and The Doors
- John Frankenheimer's The Island of Dr. Moreau, Ronin, Andersonville, Against The Wall, The Burning Season, and Wallace
- Sam Rami's For Love of the Game, and A Simple Plan
- The Farrelly Brothers' There's Something About Mary, Stuck On You, Fever Pitch, Me, Myself and Irene, and Shallow Hal
- Anjelica Huston's Riding the Bus with my Sister and Bastard Out of Carolina
- Nancy Meyer's What Women Want
- Joe Johnston's Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
- Wayne Wang's The Joy Luck Club
- Mark Rydell's James Dean and Crime of the Century
- Frank Pierson's Conspiracy, Dirty Pictures, Truman, and Citizen Cohn
- Luis Mandoki's Angel Eyes and Trapped
- John Dahl's Joy Ride, The Great Raid, and You Kill Me
- Curtis Hawson's The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
- David Twohy's G.I. Jane and The Arrival
- Gregory Nava's Selena
- Stacey Peralta's documentaries Dogtown and Z-Boys and Riding Giants
- Thomas Napper's documentary Lost Angels: Skid Row is My Home
Executive Producer - Lost Angeles: Skid Row is my Home
[edit]A feature documentary, Lost Angels: Skid Row is My Home explores the issues of mental illness, addiction and gentrification in this portrait of life on the streets of Los Angeles' Skid Row[6].
Directed by Thomas Napper, produced by Agi Orsi and executive produced by Gary Foster, Joe Wright and Klos, Los Angeles: Skid Row is my Home premiered at the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival.
Lost Angels received the 2011 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) "Voice" award[7], among other film competition awards. It was featured on Netflix and can now be seen on YouTube[8].
Screenwriting
[edit]Klos' feature drama screenplay is called Voices and it is inspired by actual events in her life. In Voices, a single mother struggles to balance a business and a new romance with family life when her young adult daughter's increasingly bizarre behavior is diagnosed as schizophrenia. She must choose between the love of her life and the life of her child[9].
In 2010, Klos graduated from the UCLA Professional Program in Screenwriting. During this program, she completed a feature comedy screenplay, Cesar and Max, and started on her second comedy screenplay, I Hate You...a Love Story.
Klos' feature comedy screenplay, Cesar and Max is about 17 yer old best friends; one the son of an illegal Mexican immigrant and the other a spoiled middle-class attorney's son as they escape problems at school and home and run away to Mexico in search of Cesar's long lost father. Along the way they discover the value of friendship and family[10].
In 2022 Klos participated in the Nostos Screenwriter's Retreat in Arezzo, Italy.
Klos is seeking representation and production for her screenplays.
Screenplay Awards
[edit]Voices:
[edit]- First place — Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards - Summer 2022[11]
- Best Un-produced Screenplay — Berlin International Art Film Festival - March, 2022
- Best Un-produced Script — Chicago Indie Film Awards - Seventh Edition, April, 2021[12]
- Best Un-produced Script — Miami Indie Film Awards - Third Edition, August, 2021
- Best Script — LA Indies - December 2021[13]
- Silver Award Winner — WRPN Women's International Film Festival - Summer 2022[14]
- Finalist — StoryPros International Screenplay Contest - 2022[15]
- Finalist — Lady Filmmakers Festival - 2022
- Semi-Finalist — Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Competition - 2024[16]
- Semi-Finalist — Page Turner Screenplays - 2023
- Semi-Finalist — The Great American Script Contest - 2023
- Semi-Finalist — ReelHeART International Script Competition - 2023[17]
- Semi-Finalist — Paris Lady MovieMakers Festival - 2022
- Semi-Finalist — Nashville Independent Filmmakers Festival - 2022
- Semi-Finalist — Washington Film Awards - Spring 2022
- Semi-Finalist — Script Studio Feature Screenwriting Contest - 2022[18]
- Semi-Finalist — New York International Women Festival - 2022
- Semi-Finalist — LA Independent Film Channel Festival - 2022
- Semi-Finalist — Table Read My Screenplay - 2022
- Semi-Finalist — Cinequest Screenwriting Competition - 2022
- Semi-Finalist — Reno Tahoe Screenplay Contest - 2021 Summer[19]
- Honorable Mention — Finish Line Script Competition - 2022
- Nominee — LA Indies - 2022
- Nominee — Toronto International Women Film Festival - 2021
Cesar & Max:
[edit]- Best Comedy Script — Best Script Award - London - Spring 2022
- Best Comedy Screenplay — New York Script Awards - 2022/2023 Winter Edition
- Best Script — LA Indies - 2022
- Winner, Table Read — Chicago Comedy Film Festival - 2022
- Bronze Award — Hispanic International Film Festival - Summer 2023
- Honorable Mention — Screenplay Festival - 2018
- Finalist - Top 10 Action/Adventure — Table Read My Screenplay - Spring 2022
- Finalist — Wiki Screenplay Competition - March 2021
- Finalist — Hot Springs Screenplay Competition - Spring 2022
- Finalist — Screenplay Festival - 2021
- Semi-Finalist — Page Turner Screenplays - March 2023
- Semi-Finalist, Top 15% — Nicholls Fellowship - 2018
- Semi-Finalist — Reno-Tahoe Screenplay Contest - 2021
- Semi-Finalist — Cinequest - 2022
- Semi-Finalist — Los Angeles Independent - 2021
- Semi-Finalist — Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices - 2022
- Semi-Finalist — Creative World Awards - 2020
- Semi-Finalist — Washington Film Awards - Spring 2022
- Semi-Finalist — Emerging Screenwriters Drama - 2022
Advocacy and Community Involvement
[edit]- Mar Vista Community Council At-Large Director - 2016 - 2019
- Mar Vista Community Council Homeless Issues Committee Co-chair - 2016 - 2018[20]
- Empowerment Congress - Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas Mental Health Committee - 2016 - 2018
- Westside Coalition (for the Homeless) - 2016 - 2019
- Presenter for NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Crisis Intervention for Law Enforcement - 2017 - current
- Volunteer with AFSP (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention) - 2019 - current
- Judge for The Directing Change Film Contest[21] which engages students and young people throughout California to learn about the topics of suicide prevention and mental health by an initiative film contest by and for students[22]
Education
[edit]State University of New York at Stony Brook - 1972 to 1974
American Film Institute - Fellowship in Cinematography, 1974 to 1975
UCLA Anderson School of Management - Management Development for Entrepreneurs 2009, certificate program
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television - Professional Program in Screenwriting 2010, certificate program
Santa Monica College - majoring in psychology, 2009 to 2010, 4.0 GPA
UCLA Extension - Business law, 2010, 4.0 GPA
Nostos Screenwriting Retreat (invitation only) - Arezzo, Italy 2021
References
[edit]- ^ "Susan Klos". IMDb.
- ^ "Susan Klos (Screenwriter)". International Screenwriters' Association.
- ^ Redman, Bridgette M. (Nov 3, 2021). "Wings for Riley". The Argonaut.
- ^ "D&B Business Directory BIG TIME PICTURE COMPANY, INC". dun&bradstreet.
- ^ "Advanced title search Big Time Picture Company (US)". IMDb.
- ^ "Lost Angels: Skid Row Is My Home". IMDb. 2010.
- ^ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) (Aug 24, 2011). "SAMHSA Highlights Healing and Recovery from Trauma at 2011 Voice Awards Hosted by Emmy-Nominated Peter Krause". PR Newswire.
- ^ infolinks (2015). "lost angels 2010". YouTube.
- ^ "Voices". Coverfly.
- ^ "Cesar and Max". Coverfly.
- ^ "Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards Spring 2024 Winners - Finalists - SemiFinalists - QuarterFinalists". Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards. 2024.
- ^ "Award Winners of Chicago Indie Film Awards". Chicago Movie Magazine. 2021.
- ^ "Winners of LA Indies Film Fest". LA Indies Magazine. 2021.
- ^ "SCREENPLAY WRITING AWARDS Summer 2022". wwiff.com/. Summer 2022.
- ^ "16th Annual StoryPros International Screenplay Contest". StoryPros. 2022.
- ^ "Unique Voices 2024 Winners". Creative Screenwriting Screenplay Competition.
- ^ ReelHeART Film Festival (May 23, 2023). "2023 ReelHeART Screenplay And TV Pilot Official Selections Announced". ReelHeART.
- ^ "WINNERS 2022 Script Studio® 2022 Feature Screenwriting Contest Winners". Script Studio. 2022.
- ^ "2021 Summer Semi-Finalists". Reno Tahoe Screenplay Festival.
- ^ "Mar Vista Community Council Homeless Solutions Committee Mar Vista Library Community Room Wednesday, August 24, 2016, 6:30 PM AGENDA" (PDF). Homeless Solutions Committee. Aug 24, 2016.
- ^ "OUR JUDGES". Youth Creating Change. 2024.
- ^ "Directing Change Annual Film Contest". Youth Creating Change.