Michael Sucsy (born February 14, 1973) is an American film director,
screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for creating the HBO film
Grey Gardens.Sucsy was raised in Connecticut and New York City. He is
a graduate of Deerfield Academy, Georgetown University's Edmund A.
Walsh School of Foreign Service, where he earned a degree in
International Relations, Law & Organization, and the Art Center
College of Design in Pasadena, CA, where he received a Masters in Fine
Arts.Sucsy segued from studying international relations to film
production via the advertising industry, where he worked for the
award-winning agency Cliff Freeman & Partners on the first-ever
Staples t.v. ads. Sucsy then pursued work as a production assistant,
an art department coordinator, a production secretary, and an
assistant director on feature films, commercials, and music videos in
Washington DC, New York City, and Los Angeles. He later went on to
earn a Masters of Fine Arts in film from Art Center College of Design
in Los Angeles. Sucsy then began directing commercials and was soon
dubbed by Shoot! Magazine "as one of the industry's crop of new
directors to watch." He was subsequently nominated for the Young
Director of the Year Award given in conjunction with the 2002 Cannes
Lions International Advertising Festival.In 2003, Sucsy was inspired
to write and direct a narrative feature film about the famous true
story of Jackie O's eccentric relatives "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale and
"Little Edie" Bouvier Beale called Grey Gardens after viewing the
well-known documentary of the same name. The day after he first
watched the documentary, Sucsy embarked on what was to become a
six-year process to get Grey Gardens made. He used primary sources
including Little Edie's personal correspondence, private journals, and
poetry as well as interviews with family members and friends as the
basis of his original script which traced the Beales' tragic descent
from riches to rags over some forty years. With Drew Barrymore and
Jessica Lange attached to star as the reclusive mother-daughter duo,
the project made its way to HBO who, in 2006, announced that Grey
Gardens was moving into production with Sucsy as its director.
Principal photography on Grey Gardens began in October 2007, and it
debuted on HBO in April 2009 to great acclaim from critics and
audiences, both new and old to the Grey Gardens phenomenon.
screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for creating the HBO film
Grey Gardens.Sucsy was raised in Connecticut and New York City. He is
a graduate of Deerfield Academy, Georgetown University's Edmund A.
Walsh School of Foreign Service, where he earned a degree in
International Relations, Law & Organization, and the Art Center
College of Design in Pasadena, CA, where he received a Masters in Fine
Arts.Sucsy segued from studying international relations to film
production via the advertising industry, where he worked for the
award-winning agency Cliff Freeman & Partners on the first-ever
Staples t.v. ads. Sucsy then pursued work as a production assistant,
an art department coordinator, a production secretary, and an
assistant director on feature films, commercials, and music videos in
Washington DC, New York City, and Los Angeles. He later went on to
earn a Masters of Fine Arts in film from Art Center College of Design
in Los Angeles. Sucsy then began directing commercials and was soon
dubbed by Shoot! Magazine "as one of the industry's crop of new
directors to watch." He was subsequently nominated for the Young
Director of the Year Award given in conjunction with the 2002 Cannes
Lions International Advertising Festival.In 2003, Sucsy was inspired
to write and direct a narrative feature film about the famous true
story of Jackie O's eccentric relatives "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale and
"Little Edie" Bouvier Beale called Grey Gardens after viewing the
well-known documentary of the same name. The day after he first
watched the documentary, Sucsy embarked on what was to become a
six-year process to get Grey Gardens made. He used primary sources
including Little Edie's personal correspondence, private journals, and
poetry as well as interviews with family members and friends as the
basis of his original script which traced the Beales' tragic descent
from riches to rags over some forty years. With Drew Barrymore and
Jessica Lange attached to star as the reclusive mother-daughter duo,
the project made its way to HBO who, in 2006, announced that Grey
Gardens was moving into production with Sucsy as its director.
Principal photography on Grey Gardens began in October 2007, and it
debuted on HBO in April 2009 to great acclaim from critics and
audiences, both new and old to the Grey Gardens phenomenon.
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