
Suzette Burton
Suzette Burton is an award winning filmmaker, producer, and editor. While attending Pratt Institute, Suzette directed several films and video installations including a documentary entitled "Disconnected" about her father’s mysterious death. Since graduating film school, Suzette has co- produced the documentary "Daddy Don't Go" directed by Emily Abt. The film is also executive produced by Omar Epps and Malik Yoba. It aired on the Starz network in 2015 and screened at over 30 film festivals, winning 8 best documentary awards. Suzette has also worked as an assistant editor on the documentary "Little White Lie" as well as a producer and editor for a variety of companies such as WEtv/AMC Networks, Pureland Pictures, One Kreate, MRT Creative, The Moth, Atlas Media, Black Entertainment Television, Mr. Youth (Biggest Loser: Million Pound Match up tour, Neutrogena, and Microsoft), Stick Figure Productions (Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane). Recently she was an assistant editor for Unladylike2020 which is 26 short films and a broadcast hour on PBS American Masters profiling diverse and little-known American women from the turn of the 20th century, and contemporary women who follow in their footsteps.
Suzette is currently a sizzle editor for Blumhouse Productions / Disarming Films and a documentary teaching artist at City Lore. She is also the owner of Concrete Dreams Productions L.L.C. and is directing a documentary entitled "Susy." She resides in the New York City area and looks forward to directing and producing more films in the future.
Sessions in which Suzette Burton attends
- Special Pre-conference Screening: Food Inc
- Signup required Samuel Goldwyn Theater - Theater
- 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM | 2 hours 30 minutes
- Screening
- Film Critics of Color ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- Pulling Back the Curtain
- Signup required Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Interactive Workshop
- Documenting the Present, Preserving the Future
- Signup required Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- #DecolonizeDocs—The Industry ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- Opening Night Party Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Back Lot
- 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM | 2 hours
- #DecolonizeDocs—The Filmmaker ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
- 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- Reenactment Reconsidered: Staged Realities and Nonfiction Fantasies
- Signup required Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- NEH Funding: Tips from Filmmakers and the NEH
- Signup required Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- PBS Indies Party
- Signup required NeueHouse Hollywood - NeueHouse Hollywood
- 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM | 2 hours
- Keynote: Orwa Nyrabia
- Signup required Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 30 minutes
- Keynote
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- #DecolonizeDocs—The Audience ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
- 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- Female Cinematographer Convening
- Signup required LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) - Gallery
- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | 1 hour
- Convening
- National Minority Consortia
- Signup required Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 11:45 AM - 1:30 PM | 1 hour 45 minutes
- Panel
- Role of Documentary in the Public Sphere
- Signup required Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
- 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
- Closing Night Party Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Back Lot
- 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM | 1 hour 15 minutes