Susan Korda has worked as a writer, director, and editor on documentary and narrative films, including The Sweetest Sound (2002), Trembling Before G-d (2001), One of Us (1999), Vienna is Different (1989), and the Academy Award-nominated For All Mankind (1989).
Born in New York and raised there and in Vienna, Austria, she studied at the City College of New York/Picker Film Institute from 1979 to 1984. She made her first film, Filial Dreams, in 1983. Since then she has been working as a director and editor and teaching at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and at the International Filmschule, Cologne.