Neil Burger

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Neil Burger (2015)

Neil Burger (* 1963 in Greenwich , Connecticut ) is an American director , screenwriter and film producer .

Life

After attending Greenwich Country Day School in Greenwich , Connecticut , Burger earned a PhD from Yale University with a PhD in fine arts . He was engaged in experimental films in the 1980s. Earlier this decade he won the Woodstock Film Festival's best film award for his pseudo- documentary Interview with the Assassin . The film was also nominated for the Independent Spirit Awards .

In 2006, Burger made the film The Illusionist , which he adapted from Steven Millhauser's short story Eisenheim the Illusionist . The film premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and opened the Seattle International Film Festival that same year.

Burger is currently working on filming the short story The Big Knockover by Dashiell Hammett . Another project is a film drama that follows criminal youths in New York who set out to confront terrorists on their own and get into trouble with the police in the process.

Filmography

Director
script
producer

Nominations & Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/neil_burger/
  2. ↑ Cinema Fusion , accessed January 17, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Burger, Neil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American director, screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Greenwich , Connecticut