Susan Johnston
Founder & Director
New Media Film Festival
USA
Biography
Susan Johnston is President of award winning Select Services Films, Inc. (DBE) and is Founder/Director of New Media Film Festival. Johnston has a background in the traditional film and TV industry and in recent years as a pioneering new media producer including Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo panel for Independent Creators, Co-Producing Feature Film Dreams Awake & currently producing the Marvel Comic feature Prey: Origin of the Species. While the Industry was changing from standard def to HD Johnston produced the 1stseries for mobile, Mini-Bikers the 1st live stream talk show on HD with a Panasonic Varicam and tested the Panasonic DVX100 which led to some changes on the DVX100A and was on the SAG New Media committee in 2003. Editorial board for the Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games, Member-The Caucus New Media Steering Committee, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences New Media Interactive, BMI, SAG/AFTRA, Advisory board member for SET Awards (Entertainment Industry Council), Machinma Expo Judge, Advisory Board for Woodbury University Digital Media Lab and Professor Emeritus in New Media.
Research Interest
Multimedia, Computer Graphics & Games