Nanette Burstein

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Nanette Burstein (born May 23, 1970 in Buffalo ) is an American director , producer and screenwriter . She has produced award-winning documentaries such as On The Ropes , The Kid Stays in the Picture and American Teen .

Live and act

Nanette Burstein studied film at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York City . During her studies, she started working on the documentary On The Ropes with fellow student Brett Morgen . For two years they followed three would-be boxers with school cameras. Burstein, who trained boxing in a fitness center in Bedford-Stuyvesant ( Brooklyn ), met the protagonists of the film there. With the help of the film editor Nancy Baker, who took care of the financing and distribution, she was finally able to finish the documentation. It premiered on January 22, 1999 at the Sundance Film Festival . On The Ropes has won numerous awards and was nominated for Best Documentary at the 2000 Academy Awards.

Burstein produced further documentaries in the following years. In 2002, The Kid Stays in the Picture , a portrait of the American film producer Robert Evans , which bears the same title as his autobiography, was published. The film won a Satellite Award for Best Documentary and a Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Documentary . In August 2011, provided Morgan Spurlock The Kid Stays in the Picture on his show The 50 Documentaries to See Before You on Current TV before.

In 2008, Burstein won several awards for her student documentary American Teen . Among other things, she was awarded for Best Director of a Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival . The film portrays five high school students in their senior year. Burstein previously spent ten months in Warsaw , Indiana , shooting around 1,000 hours of film material, which she then worked on for a year to the finished film.

Burstein directed a feature film for the first time with the romantic comedy Crazy About You (2010) . She also produced individual episodes of various TV series. As part of the ESPN documentary series 30 for 30 , she dedicated the episode The Price of Gold (2014) to the events of the figure skaters Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan . The documentary Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee about the entrepreneur of the same name followed in 2016 . Her four-part documentary Hillary was released in 2020 , in which she portrays the American politician and former first lady Hillary Clinton . The 252 minute long film, which shows interviews and biographical footage, was shown in the presence of Clinton at the Berlinale 2020 in the section “Berlinale Special”.

In addition to film and television, Burstein also directs commercials. a. for Nike .

Burnstein is married to writer and journalist Scott Anderson, who writes for the New York Times Sunday magazine. They have a daughter together and live in Brooklyn . Together with Sebastian Junge, you own the bar The Half King in Chelsea , which has been giving regular readings since it was founded in 2000.

Filmography

  • 1997: Domestic Differences
  • 1998: In the Name of the Emperor
  • 1998: Defending Our Daughters: The Rights of Women in the World
  • 1999: On the Ropes
  • 2001: The Wrong Man? (TV series)
  • 2001: Say It Loud: A Celebration of Black Music in America (TV series)
  • 2002: The Kid Stays in the Picture
  • 2004: Film School (TV series)
  • 2005: Autobiography (TV series)
  • 2007: American Shopper
  • 2007: NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell
  • 2008: American Teen
  • 2010: Crazy About You ( Going the Distance )
  • 2012: Katy Perry: Part of Me
  • 2012: Apartment 23 ( Don't Trust the B ---- in Apartment 23 , TV series, 1 episode)
  • 2012: New Girl (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 2013: The Carrie Diaries (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 2014: The Price of Gold
  • 2016: Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee
  • 2020: Hillary

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Notable Undergraduate Alumni of Film & TV filmtv.tisch.nyu.edu, accessed on January 10, 2013.
  2. ↑ Leger Grindon: Knockout: The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema. Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2011, ISBN 978-1-60473-988-6 , p. 69.
  3. ↑ Ep. 1: Life After Donkey Kong (No. 41-50) ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. current.com, accessed January 10, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / current.com
  4. ^ Sundance Film Festival, Films honored 1985-2008 (PDF; 141 kB) sundance.org, accessed January 11, 2012.
  5. ↑ Is the Camera Rolling? Director Nanette Burstein and producer Jordan Roberts on 'American Teen.' efilmcritic, accessed January 11, 2013.
  6. ↑ Hillary Clinton presents four-part documentary in Berlin. rbb24.de. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
  7. ↑ Ethan Alter: Loneliness of the long-distance lovers: Barrymore and Long team in Nanette Burstein's romantic comedy. In: Filmjournal. August 17, 2010. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  8. ↑ Timothy Lavin: What's on tap? War, Politics, Journalism In: Downtown express. March 26, 2004. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Burstein, Nanette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American director, producer, and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Buffalo