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Susan Feature Documentary Nears Completion

Susan is nearing completion with with sound mastering, music composition, and color grading in post-production.

The film is being reviewed now by various distributors, as it makes its way along the film festival circuit.

Following word that Bruce Willis has been diagnosed with FTD, Frontotemporal Dementia, with a PPA, Primary Progressive Aphasia, conversations about FTD have increase exponentially. Susan will continue that conversation.

The subject of Susan, Susan Suchan, was also diagnosed with FTD, with a PPA disorder. In dramatic fashion, Susan puts a face to FTD, turning on its head the idea that someone with a diagnosis like this doesn’t have a voice. Susan Suchan advocated tirelessly for others.

Set against the backdrop of Oklahoma’s glowing sunsets, a lush ribbon of river in southwest Missouri, and the sugary sands of Panama City Beach, Florida, Producer/Director Russ Kirkpatrick, with Director of Photography Samuel Calvin, capture the story of a family’s fascinating history and how the past plays into current-day dynamics that have to exist because of their matriarch’s involuntary life journey, and unorthodox life planning. Filming took place over the course of years, beginning in 2015.

The Oklahoma based film crew, also included Wendy Parker, Sha'ree Green, Wendy Garrett, Nicholas Szabo, Brian Gilliland, Ryan Weaver, Mark Gullickson, and Britni Harris.

The project is produced by Kirkpatrick & Kinslow, Executive Produced by Andy Kinslow.

Kirkpatrick & Kinslow, and the Susan documentary property, are represented by Wendy Drummond, in the entertainment law division of Drummond Law.