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.
Films she’s edited have premiered at the BFI Flare Festival (Queer Rural Connections, 2022), London Film Festival (The Wasp, 2025), and been shortlisted for the Student Oscars (Roar of the Tiger, 2025). The latter also earned Suzy a Royal Television Society award for her editing (postgraduate category).
She’s also had success as a writer-director: her first fiction short film, Mischief Managed, has over 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 1M views on Youtube. Her latest short Seat at the Table will be released 16 June 2026.
She has an MFA in Editing from the National Film & Television School, and before this read Classics at the University of Oxford. She currently works on a freelance basis in Oxford, UK.
“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.”
“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.”