Suzana Peric

Suzana Peric (Zagreb, Croatia, 1954) is a music editor on over 100 feature films, including Lady Bird, The Illusionist, The Manchurian Candidate, Closer, The Pianist, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Beloved, Prelude to a Kiss, The Silence of the, Lambs, Little Women, and Married to the Mob, among others.[1][2]


As a child in Croatia, Peric played in a local rock 'n' roll band. Her father was a Croatian diplomat.[3] She studied filmmaking at Chicago's Columbia College, experimenting with sound, camera, directing. In 1980, while Peric was still a student, director Arthur Penn ("Bonnie and Clyde") came to Chicago to shoot a movie called "Four Friends," about a Yugoslavian immigrant; he gave Peric her first job as a production assistant.[3] She was honored by Women in Film[4], and she a Golden Reel Award for her work on Lord of the Rings in 2002 and again in 2017 for Jane [5], and was twice nominated for an Emmy award[6].

Suzana Peric has also provided music tracks for experimental theater productions, including Giannina Braschi's United States of Banana directed by Juan Pablo Felix.[7] Braschi's Spanglish novel Yo-Yo Boing! is set in dinner parties hosted by Suzana Peric, who tells her guests her life story as an immigrant from Zagreb to a Hollywood music editor working with directors such as Jonathan Demme and Martin Scorcese.[8]

Peric teaches music scoring and film editing at New York University's Steinhart School[1]; she also curates Jonathan Demme's "Rarely Seen Cinema" series at the Jacob Burns Film Center.[5]

References
  1. "Suzana Peric". NYU Steinhardt. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
  2. Sadoff, Ronald H. (2006). "The Role of the Music Editor and the 'Temp Track' as Blueprint for the Score, Source Music, and Scource Music of Films". Popular Music. 25 (2): 165–183. ISSN 0261-1430.
  3. Hamill, Denis. "ON THE RIGHT (SOUND)TRACK CROATIAN NATIVE SUZANA PERIC HAS CUT OUT A CAREER HERE AS A MOVIE MUSIC EDITOR". nydailynews.com. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
  4. "Post Magazine - WOMEN IN FILM TO HONOR MUSIC EDITOR SUZANA PERIC". www.postmagazine.com. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
  5. "Jonathan Demme's Rarely Seen Cinema: Suzana Períc Selects". Jacob Burns Film Center. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
  6. "Suzana Peric". IMDb. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
  7. Torres, Felix (2015). United States of Banana: A Postcolonial Dramatic Fiction (Thesis). Columbia University. doi:10.7916/d87h1j3q.
  8. Aldama, Frederick (ed) (2020). Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi. Pittsburgh: U Pittsburgh.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
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