Susan Leslie Green
 
 
There are so many folks to thank that I am not sure where to begin. There are, of course, all the great teachers I’ve had at the Zaki Gordon Institute for Independent Filmmaking, Yavapai College and Indiana University. They’ve all helped me get a handle on digital technology as well as film production process.
 
None of this would have happened though, if not for the amazing experience of working with folks from Hopi and Navajo. Their tenacity and integrity  have been an enduring inspiration and spiritual foundation for the last 20 years. I can honestly say, I am much the better for their patience and wisdom.
 
Step by step, we move toward a more sustainable life. Striving to bring balance to our global environment both socially and ecologically
is a life long focus. It is a privilege and honor to know and work with people who hold the heart of Mother Earth next to their own and a comfort to know that they will continue to persist.
 
It is to them that I dedicate all my work. It is to them that I owe the deepest gratitude. Thank you.
 
Director’s Statement
Student Filmmaker Biography: Producer/ Director, Susan Leslie Green, a long time environmentalist and social justice activist, came to Arizona to volunteer on issues affecting the Hopi and Navajo in 1986. During her work as media coordinator she vowed to find a way to share the history, stories and philosophy of the incredibly dedicated people she worked with who committed their lives to the protection of the Colorado Plateau. Having been in the performing arts since childhood, she was trained in acting, set and light design, music, voice, painting and playwriting. Returning to school in 1996, she embraced digital filmmaking. In 1998, she won an Emmy for her first music video, Circle of the Path, a song she wrote and recorded to honor 500 years of resistance by the indigenous people of North America. The song is featured again in “Dance of the Warrior Mouse”. Since 1998, in the course of her education, she has produced and directed several environmental television PSAs; produced, directed and edited the student documentary, The Bonderman Symposium (2000) archived in Special Collections at the ASU Library; produced and edited Mother Water (2002) screened at the 2003 World Conference on Water in Kyoto, Japan; produced, directed and edited a ‘Sly-Dawg’ music video screened at the New York International Music Festival (2005); finished a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies and earned a certificate in Digital Storytelling and Digital Filmmaking at the Zaki Gordon Institute for Independent Filmmaking. She is currently completing a Masters in Documentary Film and Digital Storytelling, and is seeking funding to develop Dance of the Warrior Mouse into a feature length documentary to be released in the near future. http://zaki.yc.edu/ www.sedonafilmfestival.com /www.blackmesawatercoalition.orghttp://zaki.yc.eduhttp://www.sedonafilmfestival.comhttp://www.blackmesawatercoalition.orghttp://www.sedonafilmfestival.comshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2