About

Zsuzsanna Geller-Varga is a documentary filmmaker, visual storyteller, video editor and colorist based in the New York City area.

Born and raised in Hungary, Zsuzsanna Geller-Varga began her career as a freelance journalist and news reporter at various Hungarian newspapers, magazines and television channels.

She received a master’s degree in journalism specializing in documentary films from the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism as a Fulbright scholar. Her thesis documentary (Screw Your Courage) won awards at US film festivals (Best Documentary Short – Atlanta Film Festival, Best Short Doc – DocSide Filmfestival) and was broadcast on public TV in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Zsuzsanna then worked for New York Times Television as a video-journalist on well-known documentary series about the tribulations of doctors and hospitals (Trauma: Life in the E. R., Maternity Ward, Critical Hour, Resident Life on TLC and Discovery channels).

She directed and filmed her own documentaries in Hungary (see Filmography). Her films have been well received at international film festivals and broadcast by Hungarian Television.

As cinematographer, story editor and editing consultant (see Filmography), she has also contributed to independent documentary films, as well as corporate and branded content (see Other works).

Zsuzsanna was head tutor at Verzio DocLab, a rough-cut workshop at the Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. She taught documentary ethics at DocNomads, the international masters program. She completed her D.L.A. degree at the University of Theater and Film Arts in Budapest focusing on documentary storytelling.

Zsuzsanna moved back to the U.S. with her family in 2021. She was a commissioning editor at Voice of America’s (VOA) documentary series, 52 Documentary. Currently she is working as a freelance colorist, video editor (Davinci Resolve Studio) story-editor and story-producer.