Screenwriting Director’s Film Receives Multiple Accolades
October 29, 2019
Screenwriting Program Director and Associate Professor Susan Skoog’s film Dog Walker was an official selection at the Catalyst Content Festival in Duluth, Minnesota, the week of Oct. 11.
Dog Walker also screened at the Female Voices Rock Film Festival at the Cinema Village in New York on Oct. 24. Additionally, Skoog won Best Director for the same film at the NY Digital Film Awards in New York in September.
Dog Walker is a short film in the Breeding Grounds series, an award-winning, cringey and darkly comedic series about difficult women and the slights, exclusions and passive-aggressive insults they perpetuate on each other. The film stars Emily Bergl (Shameless, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Mindhunter) as Jill, a newly divorced mother working as a dog walker in her upscale town, who takes revenge on a privileged client.
Skoog has written screenplays for Warner Brothers, HBO and MTV Films and other companies, and has worked with such esteemed producers as John Wells (ER, The West Wing, August: Osage County), Ron Yerxa and Albert Berger (Cold Mountain, Election, Little Miss Sunshine), and George Pelecanos (The Deuce, The Wire). She has also had a successful career as a writer, director and producer of numerous documentary and nonfiction programs for popular TV networks like AMC, FX, MTV, PBS, Turner Classic Movies and other networks.