Award-winning director Suzi Yoonessi’s second feature film Unlovable premiered at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival, winning a Special Jury Prize. The film stars academy award nominee John Hawkes, academy award winner Melissa Leo and comedian Charlene deGuzman, and it won the 2017 Sun Valley Film Festival Film Lab. Yoonessi’s feature film Dear Lemon Lima premiered at the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival. The film was released by Phase 4 Films, HBO, Showtime and The Sundance Channel. Yoonessi directed Daphne and Velma for Warner Brother’s Blue Ribbon Content in 2018, which is the origin's story of two female super sleuths from Scooby Doo. Most recently, Yoonessi directed the feature film Mother Wolf (2026), starring Melissa Leo, which received a US in Progress post-production grant at the American Film Festival.

In addition to features, Yoonessi has directed episodic, branded, short and commercial spots for Netflix, Amazon, Funny or Die, Condé Nast, Smart Girls, Attn:, Portal A, Retrofit and Super Deluxe. Yoonessi has been nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Directing, a Streamy and several Webby's. After five years developing and directing an original animated feature at Disney Animation Studios, Yoonessi is a director at LAIKA Studios.