Future Fridays Presents Suzi Yoonessi

Posted on April 8, 2011
The filmmaker’s short Spring of Sorrow is streaming Friday on PBS.org. Director Suzi Yoonessi describes how the environmental reality of Mono Lake informs her futuristic fairy tale and how she used the Persian stories from her childhood to bring a cautionary tale about climate change to life. Watch Spring of Sorrow now on PBS.org as part of Future Fridays.

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