Susan Seidelman was born on December 11, 1952 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She is a director and producer, known for Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Sex and the City (1998) and Smithereens (1982).Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival 1994 Her mother, living in a Florida retirement home, urged her to do Boynton Beach Club (2005) and wrote the movie's script together with David Cramer. Daughter of Florence Seidelman. After attending Abington Senior High School, she studied fashion and arts at the Drexel University in Philadelphia. Is the partner of screenwriter and producer Jonathan Brett. They have a son, Oscar Brett. Has worked part time as a professor of film, teaching directing and screenwriting at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Columbia University and The New School in NYC. Desperately Seeking Susan is considered one of the 100 greatest films directed by women. "For a while, I was always called a 'woman director,' which is weird because I really feel like a director, not a woman director. I think that as more and more women direct different kinds of movies, we'll stop labeling things 'women's pictures' or hear people say, 'She makes women's movies.' I'm a woman and I don't know exactly what that term means. 'Women's pictures' are supposed to be something like a sensitive portrayal of relationships between ... women, I guess." (from a 1987 interview) [in a 1985 interview] I like watching people, and when I first moved to Manhattan, I lived in the East Village. The people there fascinated me. They were mostly young, from conservative, middle class, suburban families, and they were living on the fringe in seedy apartment buildings and burned-out lofts. It was a mysterious, almost surreal experience. These were the Flower Children of the '80s. And I wanted to make a film about them, not saying that their lifestyle was right or wrong, just that it existed.