Nanette Burstein

Nanette Burstein (* 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.

Life and work

Nanette Burstein studied film at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York City. During her studies she began with her fellow board morning to work on the On The Ropes documentation. They accompanied two years with school cameras, three aspiring boxers. Burstein, who coached boxing at a local gym in Bedford -Stuyvesant ( Brooklyn ), had there met the film's protagonists. Supported by the editor Nancy Baker, who provided for financing and sales, she finally was able to complete the documentation. The premiere took place at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 1999. On The Ropes won many awards and was nominated for Best Documentary at the Academy Awards 2000.

Burstein produced in subsequent years by other documentation. In 2002 he released The Kid Stays in the Picture, a portrait of the American film producer Robert Evans, which carries the same title as his autobiography. The film won including a Satellite Award in the category Best Documentary and a Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Documentary. In August 2011, Morgan Spurlock The Kid Stays in the Picture The presented before on Current TV in his mission 50 Documentaries to See Before You.

2008 Burstein was again won several awards with her ​​students documentation American Teen. Among other things, she was awarded at the Sundance Film Festival for Best Director in a Documentary. The film portrays five high school students in their senior year. Burstein previously spent ten months in Warsaw, Indiana, to rotate around 1000 hours of footage, which she then worked for a year to the finished film.

With the romantic comedy Going the Distance (2010) Burstein led for the first time a feature film director. She also produced individual sequences of various TV series. In addition to film and television Burstein also leads in commercials directing, inter alia, for Nike.

Burnstein is with author and journalist Scott Anderson, who writes for the New York Times Sunday magazine, married. They have a daughter and live in Brooklyn. They are together with Sebastian Junger owner of the bar, The Half King in Chelsea, which hosts regular readings since its founding in 2000.

Filmography

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