Martyn Burke

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Martyn Burke (born September 14, 1952 in Toronto ) is a Canadian journalist , writer , screenwriter and director .

Life

Burke became known both as a writer of novels and as a screenwriter and director of documentaries and feature films. He sees himself primarily as a writer ("If there was a heavenly ordinance where a big finger would point to me and someone said 'You can only do one thing', then I would write".)

The novel Laughing War is based on his experiences as a journalist in the Vietnam War . In the film Witness he portrays the last period of the occupation of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union . Idi Amin - My People Love Me is one of the few films in which the dictator Idi Amin participated directly through interviews. Islam VS Islamists is Burke's contribution to the discussion about Islam and Islamic fundamentalism .

His feature film Avenging Angelo was the last film with Anthony Quinn . The documentary Under Fire: Journalists in Combat (2011), which explored the psychological consequences of war reporting and gave voice to war reporters such as Finbarr O'Reilly , Chris Hedges , Jeremy Bowen and Christina Lamb , received a Peabody Award .

He lives with his wife Laura Morton mainly in Santa Monica and temporarily in Toronto.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1973: Carnivals (documentary, direction, production)
  • 1976: The Clown Murders (Director, Screenplay)
  • 1978: Power Play (Director, Screenplay)
  • 1981: The Last Chase (Director, Screenplay, Production)
  • 1982: The KGB Connections (documentary, director, screenplay)
  • 1984: Top Secret! (Script)
  • 1988: Witnesses (documentary, director, screenplay)
  • 1995: The Godfather and the Showgirl ( Sugartime , TV film, screenplay, co-executive producer)
  • 1997: Die Kriegsmacher ( The Second Civil War , TV movie, screenplay)
  • 1998: War in the Pentagon ( The Pentagon Wars , TV movie, screenplay, executive producer)
  • 1999: The Silicon Valley Story ( Pirates of Silicon Valley , TV movie, director, screenplay)
  • 1999: Animal Farm (TV movie, screenplay)
  • 2002: Avenging Angelo (Director)
  • 2011: Under Fire: Journalists in Combat (documentary, director, screenplay, production)

Novels

  • 1979: Laughing War ( Nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award in 1980 )
  • 2000: Ivory Joe
  • 2000: Tiara
  • 2000: The Shelling of Beverly Hills
  • 2006: The Truth about the Night
  • 2011: The Commissar's Report
  • 2016: Music for Love or War

Web links

Commons : Martyn Burke  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mark Medley: Predicting a bright future for author and filmmaker Martyn Burke . In: theglobeandmail.com of April 27, 2015.
  2. ^ Under Fire: Journalists in Combat (documentary channel hd) . In: peabodyawards.com, accessed April 19, 2020.
  3. ↑ Biography . In: martynburke.com, accessed April 23, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Burke, Martyn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian journalist, writer, screenwriter and director
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Canada