Susanne Mason's new documentary Writ Writer was broadcast nationally on the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens in Summer 2008 and received the prestigious 2009 Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association. She has served as associate producer of a variety of PBS documentaries, including Are the Kids Alright?, Struggle in the Fields, Songs of the Homeland, and Go Back to Mexico! Mason received a Silver Apple from the National Educational Film & Video Festival and a Director's Choice Award from the Black Maria Film & Video Festival, among other honours, for her film Stories from the Riverside (1993), a 28-minute documentary about domestic homicide from the perspective of three women incarcerated for murdering their abusive husbands.
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