Susan Hess Logeias

Susan Hess Logeais MA, Filmmaker, founder Hot Flash Films PDX Portland, Oregon, United States

Experienced Founding Member with a demonstrated history of working in the entertainment industry. Award winning feature and documentary filmmaker, with experience in curating programs and organizing events. Strong entrepreneurship professional with a BA Interdisciplinary Degree focused in Transformational Entertainment and Human Consciousness, MA in Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness (CIIS).

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SUSAN HESS LOGEAIS brings her passion as a social activist to her work as a filmmaker, creating thought provoking and inspiring films. Her background as a dancer, actress and perpetual student allows her to craft stories that do more than entertain. She also blends the knowledge and understanding earned from over 30 years of spiritual exploration with her technical experience as a filmmaker to create projects that draw the viewer into a heartfelt experience of the story.

Through her production company Hot Flash Films PDX, she has written and directed two documentaries – The Way of the Psychonaut and SOAR, and wrote and produced an award winning narrative feature – Not Dead Yet.

• FILMMAKER

​Although Susan graduated early to pursue ballet, her love of learning never stopped. Her fascination with non-ordinary states of consciousness inspired her to explore fire walking, bioenergetics, flotation tanks, Forrest Yoga, shamanic journey work, A Course in Light,  and Vipassana.

In her mid-fifties, Susan enrolled in college so that she might ground over two decades of profound experiences in a scientific paradigm.

Neurophysiology, quantum physics, and ancient spiritual traditions were her passions, earning her a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies, with a concentration in Transformational Entertainment and Human Consciousness. During the course of producing The Way of the Psychonaut with Stanislav Grof, she enrolled in the Philosophy, Cosmology and Consciousness program at CIIS, where she is completing her Masters. Most recently, she completed the Earthship Biotecture Academy, a month long training in Taos, New Mexico.

• ETERNAL STUDENT​

Susan's background as a performer – be it ballet, modeling, or acting – puts her at ease in front of a camera or a crowd. Although she still acts, her main focus now is presenting the information she has explored, and engaging with the experts whose work she has studied.

As an interviewer, she knows how to research a topic and then engage with her subjects so that critical information is shared. As a presenter, she can articulate her understanding of a variety of subjects in a way that connects with the audience, whatever their background.

In the summer or 2020, she co-hosted a streaming series of full length interviews followed by Q&As, and more recently has designed a six part tribute to Stanislav Grof for Ubiquity University's Humanity Rising web series.

Participation on Humanity Rising

Day 169  - Monday January 25, 2021 A Salute to Stan Grof on his 90th Birthday