Acclaimed documentary flmmaker Nanette Burstein beganher career directing 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. Shortly thereafter, 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. She went on to produce and direct a five-part series with Quincy Jones, Say it Loud: Black Music in America, and executive produce VH1’s Rock Doc NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell, which was nominated for two Emmys.

Continuing her success, Nanette’s flm, American Teen, earned the Documentary Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival, and The Price of Gold, an ESPN 30 for 30 on Tonya Harding, won Best Documentary at the Cinema Eye awards. In 2020 shecompleted the docu-series Hillary for Hulu which was nominated for the Outstanding Documentary Series Emmy Award.

More recently, she helmed the docu-series Killer Sally for Netfix; directed the Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes documentary for HBO which premiered at Cannes Film Festival; and is currently working on a flm for Nat Geo on the life of Carl Sagan. Her commercial work spans the gamut of global brands like Verizon, Google, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Facebook, and JP Morgan Chase just to name a few