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Suzana Peric (born 1954, Zagreb, Croatia) 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]

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