Suzanne Dale Baker AM (born 1939) is an Australian film producer, print and television journalist, writer, historian and feminist.
[3] She did not attend the ceremony, as Film Australia had a limited budget for overseas travel[7] and she was not expected to win.
[2] In 2011, Baker published Beethoven and the Zipper: The Astonishing Story of Musica Viva, which detailed how an Austrian immigrant to Australia, Richard Goldner, invented and patented a zip fastener for the Australian Army, and used the proceeds to establish Musica Viva Australia in 1945, which went on to become the world's largest entrepreneurial chamber music organisation.
The screenplay (working title The Musician) is by Joan Sauers and the movie is slated for release in later 2020, the year of the 75th anniversary of Musica Viva.
Of her book one reader says: "It is a terrific documenting of the slow but inexorable shift in the possibilities for women over the decades and a very sober exposé of the underlying power lines and actions that ensure feminism is not an easy movement."