Background
Burstein, Nanette was born on May 23, 1970 in Buffalo.
director screenwriter film producer
Burstein, Nanette was born on May 23, 1970 in Buffalo.
Burstein studied film at New York University"s Tisch School of the Arts.
In 1997 she collaborated on her first film with Brett Morgen, producing and directing On the Ropes, a low-budget documentary that follows the fates of three young boxers and their trainer. The film was also nominated for an Independent Spirit Award (“Truer than Fiction” award). In 1998 with Nancy Tong she co-wrote the script for Tong"s matter-of-fact documentary In the Name of the Emperor of the massacre of over 300,000 Chinese civilians by the Japanese in the so-called Rape of Nanjing in 1937.
In 2002 she and Morgen teamed up again for the Robert Evans biography The Kid Stays in the Picture.
lieutenant was also nominated for Best Documentary by the Chicago, Online, Phoenix and Broadcast Film Critics. In 2004, she produced a documentary television show Film School for International Finance Corporation with Jordan Roberts, following four film students at their alma mater, Tisch.
In 2007 Burstein was executive producer and writer on the Video Hits One Rock Doc NY77: The Coolest Year In Hell which showcases the rise of hip hop, punk, disco, and graffiti in New York City in 1977. She also executive produced the doc American Shopper.
Her latest documentary American Teen was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
Foreign the project, she lived in the small town of Warsaw, Indiana for 10 months, filming daily. She ended up with 1000 hours of footage, which took a year to edit She lives in New York and co-owns a Manhattan bar The Half-King, with Scott Anderson and Sebastian Junger.
Member of Academy Motion Picture Arts Sciences.
Married Scott Anderson.