Suzy is an award-winning film editor and director. She has created films for the University of Oxford, the WHO, and the BBC, among many others.
She recently earned a Royal Television Society award for her editing on Roar of the Tiger (2025), which was also shortlisted for the Student Oscars. Other films she’s edited have premiered at the BFI Flare Festival (Queer Rural Connections, 2022), and London Film Festival (The Wasp, 2025).
She’s also had success as a writer-director: her first fiction short, Mischief Managed, has over 2.2M views on Youtube. In 2024, she followed up with Writing Doom, a short fiction film on the dangers of AI, which won the Grand Prize in the Future of Life Institute’s Superintelligence Imagined contest, and has 1.4M views on Youtube. Her latest short Seat at the Table has just been released.
She has an MFA in Editing from the National Film & Television School, and previously read Classics at the University of Oxford. She currently works on a freelance basis in Oxford, UK.
“The contest was originally scoped to offer prizes to five winners, but we were so impressed by Suzy Shepherd’s “Writing Doom” that we added an additional ‘Grand-Prize’ to celebrate this submission. This video stood out for its ability to deliver on the key message of our contest while also producing a striking and entertaining piece of media.”
“The editing was key to driving the message and storylines in this film [Roar of the Tiger]; seamlessly piecing together many different types of media to form a very coherent documentary... creating an inspiring, “in the moment” feel that made this film stand out from the rest.”