NANETTE BURSTEIN
Producer / Director / Screenwriter
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39 years old
LOS ANGELES, California
United States
Last Login: 8/4/2008
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NANETTE BURSTEIN's Film Bio
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| Website | facebook.com/americanteen | | Influences | AMERICAN TEEN is the touching and hilarious Sundance hit that follows the lives of four teenagers
- a jock, the popular girl, the artsy girl and the geek – in one small town in Indiana through their senior year
of high school. We see the insecurities, the cliques, the jealousies, the first loves and heartbreaks, and the struggle to make profound decisions about the future.
Filming daily for ten months, filmmaker Nanette Burstein (ON THE ROPES, THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE) developed a deep understanding of her subjects. The result is a film that goes beyond the enduring stereotypes of high school to render complex young people trying to find their way into adulthood.
Hannah Bailey is smart and beautiful, but a misfit in her high school. She is a liberal, atheist living in a traditional, Christian, conservative town and dreams of moving to California after graduation. Colin Clemens is the star of the high school basketball team - and in Indiana, basketball is everything. Colin is under enormous pressure this year playing not only to make his town, his school, and his father proud, but for a college scholarship. Jake Tusing is considered to be a nerd in high school. Though quite funny and charming one-on-one, he is painfully shy in group situations and crushed with self-doubt. In his senior year he vows that nothing will stand in the way of him finding a girlfriend. Megan Krizmanich is the student council Vice President and the youngest daughter of a prominent local surgeon, anxiously awaiting word from Notre Dame University admissions. Wealthy, pretty, smart and popular, she rules her high school - just don’t get on her bad side. When Megan’s peers challenge her authority, she can’t help but take action, even if it means risking her future. Mitch Reinholdt is an attractive and charming Varsity basketball jock with a soft side. When he puts his social status on the line, avoiding his popular friends for dates with artsy Hannah Bailey, he strains to maintain his reputation while discovering a new side of himself.
With extraordinary intimacy and a great deal of humor, AMERICAN TEEN captures the pressures of growing up – pressures that come from one’s peers, one’s parents, and not least, oneself. | | Awards | Nominated for Academy Award for Best Documentary, 'ON THE ROPES'; Won DGA award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary, Won 2008 Directing Award at Sundance Film Festival for 'AMERICAN TEEN', Won Special Jury Prize at 1999 Sundance Film Festival for 'ON THE ROPES' | | Festivals | Sundance Film Festival 2008 |
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NANETTE BURSTEIN's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Zodiac Sign: | Gemini |
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About me:
In 1998, my NYU thesis film turned into my first feature length documentary. ON THE ROPES, about three young boxers fighting their way out of Bedford Stuyvesant, New York, was theatrically released nationwide. It was nominated for an Academy Award®, and it also won the Director’s Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, the IDA (International Documentary Association) Achievement Award for Best Feature Documentary, and the Special Jury award at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2002, I co-produced and directed THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE, the critically acclaimed feature-length film about the legendary Hollywood producer, Robert Evans, which Focus Features released nationwide.
My other producing/directing credits include: the five part series Say it Loud: A Celebration of Black Music in America, executive produced by Quincy Jones for VH1 in 2001; and an hour-long film about Olympic gold medalist, Marion Jones for Nike and NBC. I also executive produced a ten part reality series Film School for IFC, a one-hour special for AMC entitled Autobiography and a two part special for VH1, NY77 The Coolest Year in Hell, about that turbulent yet musically creative year, 1977 in New York City. Along with my documentary productions, I also direct commercials including campaigns for Nike and Footlocker.
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