Susan Seidelman

Susan Seidelman began her filmmaking career in 1982 with the independently financed Smithereens, which was made on a tiny budget of $60,000. The film became the first American Independent film ever accepted into the Official Competition of the Cannes Film Festival. Seidelman’s first studio movie, Desperately Seeking Susan, (starring Madonna and Rosanna Arquette) was a surprise success both critically and at the box office and helped to launch the screen careers of… (plus)