American Teen
plus director Q&A
Filmmaker: Nanette Burstein
USA / 2008 / 95 mins
Awards: Best Feature Documentary, Sundance 2008
ICA Cinema 1 Sat 7 Mar 6.30pm
Winner: Best Feature Documentary, Sundance 2008. “...undeniably entertaining...” (Variety). Where documentary meets high school movie from the brilliant Oscar®-nominated Nanette Burstein.
Oscar®-nominated documentarist Nanette Burstein follows teenagers in a slick doc that plays better than fiction: the jock, the queen bee, the artsy rebel, the heart-throb and the nerd struggle through the insecurities, cliques, first-loves and heartbreaks of high school, their inner worlds revealed through animation, as they grapple with the pressure of deciding what the future holds.
Nanette Burstein’s NYU thesis film turned into her first feature length documentary On The Ropes, which was subsequently nominated for an Academy Award®. In 2002, she co-produced and directed The Kid Stays in The Picture about legendary Hollywood producer, Robert Evans. Burstein has produced and directed numerous docs for TV, and also directs commercials including campaigns for Nike and Footlocker.
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