She also produced one of those films, the documentary The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo (1985), with co-director Lourdes Portillo, about the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo who looked for their disappeared children during the Dirty War.
Susana Muñoz was born in Argentina where she lived until 1972, when at the age of 18 she moved to Israel.
She worked as a news editor for Israeli television and seven years later, Muñoz moved to the United States to pursue a higher education at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Although Muñoz was not living in Argentina during the "Dirty War" where left-wing supporters who criticized the government disappeared, many of her loved ones were.
Her sister was forced into exile for 9 years and many high school friends of Muñoz disappeared during the war.