Art and Status in Society

Susan G. Enberg is an award-winning independent film director, producer, editor and photographer who launched her own production company, Susan G. Enberg Productions, in 2015. Susan has also written two children’s books for the non-governmental organization, Free The Children. In addition to being a documentarian, Susan is a long-time photojournalist whose writings and photography are focused on human rights and social justice issues. She has been awarded numerous scholarships for high academic achievement and for her social justice activities.

Currently Susan is directing, producing, and editing three other documentary films: Bring Our Children Home (with Indigenous youth from the Treaty 3 region that have been in and out of residential care); 8 ½ Seconds (about the life and death of Michael MacIsaac, a man shot and killed by police while in an epileptic state); and, Fight Like a Woman with female Muaythai warrior, Miranda Burrell. Her first film as a director/producer, In Jesus’ Name: Shattering the Silence of St. Anne’s Residential School, is a poignant exposé by survivors as they courageously tap into traumatic memories with great clarity, memories of the horrific abuses they suffered at the hands of the Catholic clergy while interned at St. Anne’s. The film has gone on to win a number of festival awards, and some footage is now installed at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights.

Susan has also directed and co-produced a private pedagogical documentary that focuses on reconciliation at a Toronto primary school through the incorporation of indigenous arts and cultural sharing by indigenous artist, Chief Lady Bird. The title of this short film is The Art of Reconciliation.