Susie Yankou is a Canadian film director and screenwriter currently working in the United States, whose debut feature film Sisters premiered in 2024.[1]
Originally from Toronto, Ontario, as a high school student her goal was to study screenwriting at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles, California.[2] Although she was accepted into the program, the $55,000 tuition was prohibitively expensive for her family, so she launched her own fundraising initiative, baking cookies to sell twice a week at the Distillery District and Riverdale farmer's markets.[2]
In California she created and acted in the web series 101 Ways to Get Rejected prior to working on Sisters as her feature directorial debut.
Sisters received a Re:Focus grant from the Inside Out Film and Video Festival in 2022 to assist in the film's production.[3] It premiered in May 2024 at Inside Out,[4] where it won the audience award for Best Feature Film.[5]