Charles BurnettNationality:
American Birthdate:
04/13/1944 Birthplace:
Vicksburg, Mississippi
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biography
Highly acclaimed, award-winning African-American independent filmmaker whose "Killer of Sheep" (made in 1973, first shown 1977) about the emotional and behavioral effects of his job on a Los Angeles slaughter-house worker, won multiple awards and, although it never received commercial release, was added to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.Completed on a budget of less than $1.5 million Burnett's first theatrical release, "To Sleep With Anger", concerning a tightly-knit middle-class black family in Los Angeles that begins to unravel when a long-absent relative (Danny
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milestones
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Milestone
1969
Directing debut, "Several Friends"
Taught film for a year and a half during graduate school
Worked as script reader, synopsis writer for Chasin-Park-Citron Agency
1977
Directed first feature, "Killer of Sheep"; also wrote, edited and shot; made in 1973, while a graduate student at UCLA
Lectured on independent filmmaking at colleges, film centers and museums
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