NEW YORK, USA // Nanette Burstein began her career directing the award winning documentary,On The Ropes, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary, won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance, and received the DGA award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement while she was still attending NYU Tisch School of Film.

Shortly after, she co-directed the Robert Evans biography, The Kid Stays in the Picture, which became one of the most talked about movies of the year. It won the Boston Society of Film Critics Award, the Golden Satellite Award and the Seattle Film Critic’s Award for Best Documentary. Nanette also worked as executive producer and writer on VH1’s Rock Doc NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell, which showcases the rise of hip-hop, punk, disco and graffiti in New York City in the year 1977.  The series was nominated for two Emmy awards.

Continuing her success in the documentary field, her film, American Teen, followed the lives of five teenagers through their senior year of high school in a small Indiana town. The film received immense critical acclaim and earned Nanette the Documentary Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

Nanette directed the feature romantic comedy Going The Distance, which starred Drew Barrymore, Justin Long, Jason Sudeikis, Rob Riggle, Charlie Day and Christina Applegate. She has also directed episodic television comedies, such as Fox’s hit show New Girl starring Zooey Deschanel and CW’s Carrie Diaries.

Nanette has been a prolific commercial director, winning several awards including an Emmy nomination for best commercial of the year for her Google spot, Jess Time.

Her latest film, The Price of Gold, was a documentary for the ESPN 30 for 30 series about figure skaters Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan. The film recently won Best documentary at the Cinema Eye awards.