Background
Burshtein was born in New York in 1967 and moved to Tel Aviv when she was one year old.
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Education
She attended the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem, graduating in 1995.
Career
Prior to Fill the Void Burshtein was part of a collective of Orthodox Jewish women filmmakers who funded, produced, directed and wrote films for themselves. According to Burshtein it took her 15 years to complete her debut film, Fill the Void, with numerous delays over writing, casting and editing. lieutenant took her a year to find actress Hadas Yaron to play the main role of Shira and another year in post-production because of insecurities over the editing process.
Fill the Void starred Chayim Sharir, Hadas Yaron, Hila Feldman, Ido Samuel, Irit Sheleg, Razia Israeli, Renana Raz, Yael Tal and Yiftach Klein.
lieutenant is the story of a religious Jewish woman who must make a decision about whether or not to marry her late sister"s husband. Fill the Void premiered at the 69th Venice International Film Festival.
The film was picked up for North American distribution by Sony Pictures Classics. lieutenant was released in 2013 to great critical acclaim receiving a score of 81 on Metacritic.
In 2013 she was invited to direct a short film in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Venice International Film Festival.
Her film, along with those of 69 other directors, was collected in a work entitled Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded and premiered at the 70th Venice International Film Festival.
