Susanne Mason is a documentary filmmaker, archive producer, and researcher based in Texas. Her recent work as archive producer includes THE INQUISITOR about Barbara Jordan, Shaking It Up: The Life and Times of Liz Carpenter, and The Lady Bird Diaries. She produced and directed Writ Writer, a historical documentary about the Texas prisoners’ rights movement, winner of the American Bar Association’s 2009 Silver Gavel for documentary. Funded in part by ITVS, the NEA, and Humanities Texas, and broadcast on Independent Lens, Writ Writer is part of the New Day Films catalogue. She’s currently producing and directing a longitudinal documentary about journalist, policy analyst, poet, and community organizer Jorge Antonio Renaud, who spent 27 years incarcerated in Texas.