Neil Burger

Biography

After visiting the Greenwich Country Day School in Greenwich, Connecticut, Burger received his doctorate from Yale University with a doctorate of fine arts. He worked in the 1980s with experimental films. He won earlier this decade, including the award for Best Film at the Woodstock Film Festival for his pseudo - documentary Interview with the Assassin. The film was also nominated for the Independent Spirit Awards.

2006 Burger turned the movie The Illusionist, which he adapted from the short story Eisenheim the Illusionist by Steven Millhauser. The film was premiered in 2006 at the Sundance Film Festival and opened in the same year, the Seattle International Film Festival.

Currently Burger is working to film the short story The Big Knock Over by Dashiell Hammett. Another project is a film drama that delinquent boys in New York follows the heading out to put terrorists on their own and thereby get into trouble with the police.

Filmography

  • 2002: Interview with the Assassin
  • 2006: The Illusionist ( The Illusionist )
  • 2008: The Lucky Ones
  • 2011: Without Limit ( Limitless )
  • 2014: The determination - Divergent ( Divergent )
  • 2002: Interview with the Assassin
  • 2006: The Illusionist ( The Illusionist )
  • 2008: The Lucky Ones
  • 2008: The Lucky Ones

Awards

2002

  • Winner of the Maverick Awards for "Interview with the Assassin "

2003

  • Winner of the Prix Tournage at Avignon Film Festival, as well as
  • Nominated in two categories for the Independent Spirit Award, both for "Interview with the Assassin " (2002)

2007

  • Nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and
  • Nominated for USC Scripter Award, both for " The Illusionist " (2006)
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