ANDREW BURTON

(b. 1987 / USA / He, Him) is a Pulitzer Prize finalist documentary filmmaker and photojournalist focused on the intersection of environmentalism and exploration. He is a Sundance grantee who has worked on Peabody-winning and Emmy-nominated films. Burton and his wife have two daughters and a dog named Bosco.

andrew@andrewburton.com

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Thoughts and Prayers

Make no mistake: This is a straight-faced comedy about the power of mass psychosis - IndieWire

[There is] no more poignant/pathetic image on TV right now than in "Thoughts and Prayers"...an earnest documentary, almost too painful to watch. - Joyce Carol Oates

At its heart, the film’s juxtaposition of teary, knowing, and oftentimes heartbreaking schoolkid testimonials with increasingly implausible capitalist-driven attempts to profit from this epidemic is a damning indictment of the U.S. response to the seemingly neverending epidemic of school shootings. For offering up a depressingly timely dissection of a wholly American crisis that reveals the very empty political promises its title refers to, Thoughts & Prayers wins a Peabody award. - Peabody Citation

Role: Camera operator, additional editing

Client: HBO

Awards: Winner: Peabody Award, 2x Emmy nominee (Outstanding Current Affairs, Outstanding Editing)

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