Interested in creating scripted podcasts? Want to hear about the process from script to final mix? Kristin M. Burke is here to download her brain, fresh from directing Season Two of the award-winning BORRASCA for QCode Media.
Enjoy a Mediterranean lunch and talk with Kristin about process, storytelling, working with actors, sound design, world-building through sound, and the emerging job market for new graduates.
Where: AMS 219
When: Fri Oct 14, 12:30pm
Bio: Kristin M. Burke was born in Orange, CA. Educated at Northwestern University, she earned degrees in both Radio/TV/Film and French Studies. She won awards at the Seattle International Film Festival, FIFREC-Nimes Film Festival and the Dallas Film Festival for her experimental short films. More recently, she was awarded a $100,000 fellowship from Warner Bros. to write and direct a short film as part of their Emerging Film Directors Fellowship, called Urban Myth:
NEST. She is currently directing season two of the award-winning scripted podcast BORRASCA for QCode Media. She spent the first twenty-five years of her professional life as an award nominated costume designer in a career that encompassed film, television, video games and music videos across many genres.
As a writer-director, she now has many projects in various stages of active development. She has authored several books, founded a nonprofit to aid refugees in Southern California, delivered a TEDxTalk, has lectured at universities all over the world. written a popular blog on film costume design, and her writing has appeared in numerous anthologies and publications, including The Guardian.
