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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Newtok


One of the best Documentaries of the year - Esquire

A haunting, desperate, emotional plea to save a way of live, and also eventually ourselves - Fast Company

Role: Co-Director, Co-Producer, Co-DP, Assistant Editor

Client: Self initiated, acquired and released by Patagonia

Additional Support: Sundance Foundation, Kendeda Fund, Logan Fund, U.C. Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Fellowship, Fund for Investigative Journalism, DTTB

Awards: Winner: Big Sky Film Festival Award

Watch Newtok here

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)

Watch Thoughts and Prayers here




The Life We Leave


Thoughtful and subtly transcendent..a fascinating film that compassionately and refreshingly looks death right in the eyes while finding plenty of complex life of its own along the way. - The Stranger  

A refreshing, joyous gem of a documentary that also doesn’t shy away from the pain of loss. - The Inlander

Touching, inspiring and reflective of my own fears of my mortality and what comes after The Life We Leave both hits a nerve and then nurtures that wound - LetterBoxd

Role: Co-Producer, Camera Operator

Awards: Winner: Seattle Intl Film Festival’s Golden Space Needle Best Documentary

Client: Self-initiated, SXSW Premiere


All The Empty Rooms


Role: Editor for promotional material

Client: Netflix x HC 

Deliverable: Trailers and social media promotional material for film

Awards: Academy Award for Best Short Documentary

The Endurance


Role: Editor for promotional material

Client: National Geographic x HC 

Deliverable: Trailers, promotional material, social media cut downs


Taras


Role: Editor 

Client: Fieldwork Creative 

Deliverable: 10 minute short film on a Ukrainian soldier grappling with the trauma of fighting on the front lines of the Ukrainian-Russian war.





The Mission


Role: Editor for promotional material

Client: National Geographic x HC

Deliverable: Trailers, promotional material, social media cut downs for The Mission

Watch The Mission here

The Line


Role: Camera Operator

Client: Mount 2 Coast  

 Deliverable: 35 minute documentary about one of the most grueling ultra marathons in the world, The Badwater 135. The film follows three athletes as they attempt to run nonstop from the bottom of Death Valley to Mt Whitney, the tallest mountain in the lower 48 states.


Disrupted


Role: Editor

Client: Visura x Alexia Foundation 

 Deliverable: 30 minute documentary about the fraught issues within the photojournalism industry despite its crucial role in a healthy democracy and fourth estate. 





JFK: One Day in America (Series)


Role: Editor for promotional material

Client: National Geographic x HC

Deliverable: Trailers, sizzles, social media cut downs for JFK: One Day in America

Watch JFK: One Day in America here
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