Kira Bursky CONTACT: CELL: 845-642-1449 EMAIL: [email protected] PORTFOLIO: VIMEO.COM/ALLAROUNDARTSY 173 CLARK’S CHAPEL ROAD WEAVERVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA 28787 GRADUATE: MOTION PICTURES ARTS INTERLOCHEN ARTS ACADEMY INTERLOCHEN, MICHIGAN CAROLINA FILM INSTITUTE GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA HONORS: BEST EMERGING FEMALE FILMMAKER 2015 - NFFTY PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLAR IN THE ARTS SEMI-FINALIST 2014 YOUNG ARTS CINEMATIC ARTS FINALIST 2014 Film Festivals: Screenings and Awards • “Hattie” 20th Annual Cucalorus Film Festival Seattle 48 Hour Horror Film Project Finalist | 2015 (Wilmington, NC | Nov 12-16, 2014) (Seattle, WA | Nov 12, 2015) San Diego Film Festival Qualcomm UltraHD 4K The Serile Filmului Gay Film Festival Mobile Challenge (Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA | Nov 10-16, 2014) • “Counting Duet 4” (San Diego, CA | Sep 30-Oct 4, 2015) Mechanical Eye Microcinema Premiere of Film Produced for the Grammy- Top 3 Finalist | 2015 (Asheville, NC | Oct 21, 2014) Winning Eighth Blackbird Ensemble’s Piece Brighton Youth Film Festival Mass Hysteria “Counting Duet 4” | 2015 (Brighton, UK | Sep 19, 2015) (Live Stream Event | June 6, 2014) Interlochen Academy of the Arts Best Emerging Female Filmmaker | 2015 (Interlochen, MI | Apr 9, 2015) NFFTY • “It’s Just You” (Seattle, WA | Apr 23-26, 2015) Top 24 Sermi-Finalist | 2015 • “Girly” Co-Director: Abbey Sacks Best U.S. Narrative | 2014 San Diego Film Festival Qualcomm UltraHD 4K 24 Hour Film Racing Film The Lovett High School Film Festival Mobile Challenge (New York, NY | Aug 29, 2015) (Atlanta, GA | May 3, 2014) (San Diego, CA | Sep 30-Oct 4, 2015) Brighton Youth Film Festival First Place | 2014 (Brighton, UK | Sep 19, 2015) • “Togetherness” The Mosaic Film Experience Best Direction, Best Ensemble Cast, and Best (Grand Rapids, MI | Nov 1-2, 2013) Up and Out Film Festival Sound Design | 2015 (Minneapolis, MN | Jun 19, 2015) Brighton Youth Film Festival Co-Director: Abbey Sacks (Brighton, UK | Sep 19, 2015) Seattle 48 Hour Film Project • “We’re Okay” (Seattle, WA | Aug 6, 2015) Santa Monica International Teen Film Festival Best Emerging Female Filmmaker | 2015 (Santa Monica, CA | Jun 6, 2015) National Film Festival for Talented Youth Pérez Art Museum Miami Teen Arts Council Video (Seattle, WA | Apr 23-26, 2015) • “Tree Hugger” Screening (PAMM) Official Selection | 2015 (Miami, FL | May 30, 2015) Best Overall Film | 2014 Short Film Corner - Cannes Film Festival Grace Film Festival All American High School Film Festival (Cannes, FRANCE | May 13-24, 2015) (New York, NY | Oct 24-27, 2014) (San Francisco, CA | Apr 23-25, 2015) Jury Award for Best Youth Film, Audience Award First Place | 2014 George Lindsey UNA Film Festival for Best Youth Film | 2015 (Florence, AL | Mar 5-7, 2015) The Mosaic Film Experience Laguna Film Festival (Grand Rapids, MI | Nov 7-8, 2014) StarLite Film Festival (Laguna, CA | Oct 16-18, 2015) (Winter Garden, FL | Feb 26-Mar 1, 2015) Second Place | 2014 China Women’s Film Festival 中国女性影展 Embarras Valley Film Festival Highway 61 (Beijing, CHINA | Nov 20-29, 2015) (Pine City, MN | Oct 3-5, 2014) (Charleston, IL | Nov 6, 2014) Citizen Jane Film Festival All American High School Film Festival Up and Out Film Festival (Columbia, MO | Oct 22-25, 2015) (New York, NY | Oct 24-27, 2014) (Minneapolis, MN | Jun 19, 2015) Reedy Reels Film Festival Princeton Student Film and Video Festival Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival (Greenville, SC | Oct 16-17, 2015) (Princeton, NJ | Jul 16-17, 2014) (Mumbai, INDIA | May 27-31, 2015) Qabila Film Festival West Chester Film Festival Three Cities Film Festival (Cairo, EGYPT | Oct 8-10, 2015) (West Chester, PA | Apr 25-27, 2014) (Online | TBA) Queen City Film Festival San Luis Obispo Int’l Film Festival West Chester International Short Film Festival (Cumberland, MD | Oct 1-4, 2015) (San Luis Obispo, CA | Mar 9, 2014) (West Chester, PA | Apr 24-26, 2015) Frankfort Film Festival NFFTY • “Adulthood” (Frankfort, MI | Oct 24- 27, 2013) (Seattle, WA | Apr 23-26, 2015) Best in City, Best Writing, Best Direction, Best The Guam International Film Fest Icarus Project Acting, Best Sound Design, and Audience Award (Guam | Sep 24- 29, 2013) (St. Louis, MO | Nov 26, 2014) Screening at Filmapalooza 2016 | 2015 Co-Directed with Abbey Sacks Film Festivals: Screenings and Awards Kira Bursky - 2 - • “What Are You?” Top 3 in Theme Category | 2014 Highway 61 Best U.S. Animation | 2014 Cresskill High School Film Festival (Pine City, MN | Oct 3-5, 2014) The Lovett High School Film Festival (Cresskill, NJ | May 22, 2014) Second Place - Experimental | 2014 (Atlanta, GA | May 3, 2014) Finalist | 2014 Josiah Media Festival CineYouth - Chicago International Film Festival First White House Student Film Festival (San Antonio, TX | Jul 10-12, 2014) (Chicago, IL | May 5-7, 2015) (Washington, DC | Feb 28, 2014) Top 3 in “Music Video” | 2014 Cine Probe International Peace and Film Festival Cresskill High School Film Festival (La Paz, Mexico | May 5-7, 2015) (Orlando, FL | Nov 12-15, 2015) (Cresskill, NJ | May 22, 2014) Boomtown Film and Music Festival San Diego Asian Film Festival Heart of the Pines Film Festival (Beaumont, TX | Feb 25-28, 2015) (San Diego, CA | Nov 5-14, 2015) (Minden, LA | Jul 25-26, 2015) Novella Showcase (Televised) The Lawrence Arts Center’s Free State Film Pérez Art Museum Miami Teen Arts Council (Lansing and Jackson, MI) Festival Teen Video Showcase (Lawrence, KS | Jun 22-28, 2015) (Miami, FL | May 30, 2015) • “Demons in Disguise” Los Angeles Film Festival - the Future CineYouth - Chicago International Film Festival Best Emerging Female Filmmaker | 2015 Filmmakers Showcase (Chicago, IL | May 5-7, 2015) National Film Festival for Talented Youth (Los Angeles, CA | Jun 13, 2015) The Lovett School High School Film Festival (Seattle, WA | Apr 23-26, 2015) StarLite Film Festival (Atlanta, GA | May 2, 2015) Best Domestic Student Short | 2015 (Winter Garden, FL | Feb 26-Mar 1, 2015) West Chester International Short Film Festival StarLite Film Festival Citizen Jane Film Festival (West Chester, PA | Apr 24-26, 2015) (Winter Garden, FL | Feb 26-Mar 1, 2015) (Columbia, MO | Nov 7-9, 2014) All American High School Film Festival Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival Chicago Int’l Children’s Film Festival (New York, NY | Oct 24-27, 2014) (Walhalla, MI | Aug 4-9, 2015) (Chicago, IL | Oct 24-Nov 2, 2014) Grenada Afterglow Film Festival Three Cities Film Festival All American High School Film Fest (Grenada, MS | Oct 18, 2014) (Online | TBA) (New York, NY | Oct 24-27, 2014) Music Malt Online Festival NFFTY The Int’l Children’s Television Festival (Online | Oct 18, 2014) (Seattle, WA | Apr 23-26, 2015) “Dytiatko” NFFTY MiCe Film Festival (Kharkiv, Ukraine | Sep 24-27, 2014) (Seattle, WA | Apr 24-27, 2014) (Valenica, Spain | Mar 27-29, 2015) Guam International Film Festival South Carolina Comicon Film Festival (Guam | Sep 23-28, 2014) • “Halfway” (Greenville, SC | Mar 22, 2015) Top 10 | 2014 • “Warm Rush” Colchester International Film Festival • “Hello From Malaysia” Best U.S. Animation | 2015 60 Hour Film Challenge Second Place Narrative | 2014 The Lovett School High School Film Festival (Colchester, UK | Oct 26, 2014) The MY HERO Int’l Film Festival! (Atlanta, GA | May 2, 2015) Novella Showcase (Televised) (Santa Monica, CA | Nov 22, 2014) Semi-Finalist | 2014 (Lansing and Jackson, MI) Directed and Produced Absurducopia: A Musical My Blog: All Around Directed and Produced by Kira Bursky Comedy Web Series Artsy Adventures by IA Productions • Short Films (Co-directed and co-starring All Around Artsy Adventures is (Company co-owned by “Adulthood” | 2015 with Wayne Culpepper. All my little corner of the internet Kira Bursky and partner Co-Director Abbey Sacks produced in 2014.) where you can learn about me, Mida Chu. Films can be “It’s Just You” | 2015 my films, Miss Whimsy’s music, screened at http://vimeo. • Episodes Co-Director Abbey Sacks my art, and my awards, festivals, com/iaproductions) “Hattie” | 2015 “Big” | Ep. 1 and articles. “Togetherness” | 2015 “ALS Ice Bucket Challenge • Short Films http://allaroundartsyadventures. Co-Director Abbey Sacks Fail” | Ep. 2 “Wait in Silence” | 2012 “Tree Hugger” | 2015 blogspot.com/ Co-Director/Co-DP “Counting Duet 4” | 2015 “The Antidote” | Ep. 3 44th Nashville Film Festival “Demons in Disguise” | 2014 “Halfway” | Ep. 4 Nashville, TN | Apr 18-25, 2013 “The Beckoning” | 2014 “Use That Talent” | Ep. 5 Unofficial Google+ Film Fest “We’re Okay” | 2014 Online | Nov 30-Dec 2, 2012 “Hello From Malaysia” | 2014 Utopia Film Festival “What Are You?” | 2013 Greenbelt, MD | Oct 13-21, 2012 “Eating for Beginners” | 2013 Ruby Mountain Film Festival “Clean” | 2013 Elko, Nevada | Sep 28-30, 2012 “Girly” | 2013 “Bye Bye Lullaby” | 2013 “Johnny Boy” | 2012 “Fool’s Paradise” | 2012 Director “Sleepyhead” | 2012 “Hello World” | 2012 Co-Director/Co-DP • Music Videos “First Dusk” | 2012 “Warm Rush” | 2014 Co-Director/Co-DP “Beautiful Creature” | 2014 “Water Girl” | 2012 “Looking Through” | 2012 Co-Director/Co-DP Kira Bursky - 3 - Additional Work Experience Post Production Intern Director of Photography Grip • Warrior Poets (Jan-Apr 2015) • “I Hate You Norah Smith” (Short | 2014) • “One Hell of an Angel” (Feature | 2013) Directed by Leah Yrastorza- Directed by Katie Damien Freelance Daghman • Tesla Motors Instructional Video | 2015 Production Assistant Co-Director and Cinematographer • “Love Triangle” (Short | 2014) • “My Toxic Backyard” (Feature Docu- Directed by Lily Li • SOCAP Intro Videos | 2015 mentary | 2014) Motion Graphics Designer • “Round About the