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Johnny Burke

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Emmy award-winning Filmmaker and Film Editor, whose work has been broadcast on channels worldwide and won numerous awards. Awards include 2016 Emmy for Outstanding Documentary Short; Nomination for Craft Editing Award, British Independent film Awards (2017); Grand Jury Prize Sheffield Doc Fest (2016); Grierson Nominated Best Newcomer (2015); Winner of International Documentary Association and Pare Lorentz award (2014). I look to make powerful narrative films, both observational and scripted drama, involving inspiring characters and complex ideas, which can move people emotionally, inform and educate, and lead to debate around the most important issues facing the world today. Recent work includes directing Channel 4 film 'Lost at Sea' (2020); writing and directing drama doc 'Model Drug Runner' (2019, National Geographic); working as film editor on 'Thatcher A very British Revolution' (2019, BBC); editing 'A Northern Soul' (2018, BBC Storyville) a feature documentary shown in cinemas around the UK and in the House of Commons to MP's. Films I have directed or edited, have won awards at festivals around the world, such as: Grierson Nomination Best Historical Documentary 2019. Nomination Craft Editing Award, British Independent film Awards (2017); Sheffield International Documentary Festival- Grand Jury Prize 2016. Banff Film and Book Festival - Best Film Mountain Culture. 2014 Vancouver International Mountain Film festival - Best Film Mountain Culture. 2015 Documentary Edge Festival, New Zealand - Best International Short. 2015 Spotkania Mountain FF, in Zakopane - Mayor's award, 2015 Grierson Nominated Director 'Best Newcomer', 2015. Social Impact Media Awards, Best Short film - Best Director Short film, 2016. International Documentary Association - Best Short Documentary. 2014 International Documentary Association - Pare Lorentz Award. 2014 Sundance - Special Jury Prize, 2008.

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