12th Hour - Best for Fests documentary - The director's bio and filmography

Susan Kucera has been working in film since youth, first as a camera assistant studying the Athabasca Glacier creating educational short films with her father, Glaciologist, Dr.Richard Kucera, for Encyclopaedia Britannica Film Corporation, then as a screenwriter and director of documentaries.

As one of the first owner/operators of the ground breaking Red One Camera she produced, wrote, directed and filmed Trading on Thin Air starring Nation Magazine’s Alex Cockburn (2009). She wrote, filmed, directed, edited and co-produced For the Love of Tango starring Broadway’s Forever Tango, Jorge Torres (2014). She directed and filmed Improv(e) (2011) a documentary short highlighting the work of the Unusual Suspects Theatre Company and the teens from John C. Fremont High School in LA. She directed, filmed, edited and produced award winning Breath of Life, starring Richard Dawkins (2014). She was the Cinematographer for Milkmen (2015).

Susan Kucera's statement:

"Jim Swift and I have produced many films about climate change through various prisms. 12th Hour is our fourth film. Jim produced a film that takes a hard look at ourselves and the evolutionary traits that may keep us from tackling a problem that will take a worldwide co-ordinated effort to solve."

Susan is director and cinematographer of the film Living in the Futures Past, a collaboration with Academy award-winning Jeff Bridges. The film has won multiple awards including the New York Film Festival and the UN gold medal for Outstanding Achievement in International Communications which best exemplifies the ideals and goals of the United Nations. The fil was handled internationally by Vision Films ' Lise Romanoff.

Susan lives in Hawaii and Washington State and currently films with the Red Epic W. Susan’s films have been featured in the U.S. and Canada on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Shaw, NHK, KCET, LINK TV, Time Warner, and more and translated for and featured on platforms in China, Germany and Argentina. Breath of Life has been sponsored by University of Melbourne, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Bristol Festival of Ideas, The Rockefeller Foundation’s Cabot Institute for the Environment, The Blue Planet Foundation, Pangeaseed Foundation and more.