9/12: From Chaos to Community,
Producers: Jacki Ochs and Susanna Styron
Director: Susanna Styron
Co-Producer: Stephanie Zessos


9/12: From Chaos to Community combines vibrant cinema-vérité footage, emotional in-depth interviews, still photographs and archival footage to tell the untold story of Ground Zero. Focusing on a group of New York City volunteers, the relationships they formed among themselves and with the rescue and recovery workers they cared for, the film creates an exuberant, vivid and moving portrait of the Ground Zero community — as it was during the recovery effort at the World Trade Center site, and as it continues today in the life-changing relationships formed there.

"I dream'd in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; I dream'd that was the new City of Friends; Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love — it led the rest: It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city, And in all their looks and words."
— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

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Bio:
Susanna Styron is the director and co-writer of the critically acclaimed Columbia Pictures feature film, Shadrach, starring Harvey Keitel and Andie MacDowell (Venice Film Festival, Tokyo Film Festival, Los Angeles International Film Festival). For television, she wrote and directed the Bottlecaps episode of A&E's 100 Centre Street, created by Sidney Lumet. Susanna co-authored (with Bridget Terry) an adaptation of Ann Tyler's Back When We Were Grown-Ups for Hallmark Hall of Fame; Taking Back Our Town for Lifetime (2001 Christopher Award; 2002 Environmental Media Award); and Crossing The Line, also for Lifetime.