CURRENT PROJECTS                          (CLICK ON UNDERLINED TITLES TO SEE CLIPS)

Playing with Parkinson’s – Documentary in progress about musician Sangeeta Michael Berardi as he faces Parkinson’s disease.

BROADCAST DOCUMENTARIES

What Price Learning - Documentary on School Financing.  ABC Television. 1978.  Writer/Director.

Anne Frank in Maine – Documentary on schoolchildren in rural Maine studying the Holocaust.  1978.  Writer/Producer.

WOMEN IN JAZZ - Seven part series on the role and accomplishments of women throughout the history of jazz. Narrated by Marian McPartland and Carmen McRae.  Arts & Entertainment Network. 1981. Writer/Director/Producer.

Trumpet Kings - First program in the five part HISTORY OF AZZ  Series.  Narrated and with perfromance by Wynton Marsalis.  BRAVO Cable Netwrork, PBS, BBC and Channel 4 in England, NHK in Japan and seen on television on some 35 other countries world wide and distributed in various home video formats. 1984.  Writer/Director/Producer.

The Coltrane Legacy – Hour long documentary on tenor and soprano saxophonist and composer John Coltrane, with interviews and archival film footage.  Same  distribution as above.  1986. Co-Producer/Director

Piano Legends.  Hour long documentary on history of jazz piano.  Narrated and with performance  by Chick Corea.  Same distribution as above.  1987. Writer/co-Producer/Director.

Reed Royalty and Tenor Titans – Two hour long documentaries on the history of the jazz saxophone.  Narrated by Branford Marsalis with archival film clips and interviews.  Same distribution as above. 1993. Writer/co-Producer/Director.

In 1987, Burrill won an ACE award, now an EMMY, for the first three parts of the HISTORY OF JAZZ series.

MORE MUSIC FILMS

The Spirit Travels - Hour long documentary on ethnic music in America.  Narrated by Linda Rondstadt. 1989. Writer/co-Producer/Cameraperson.

Joe Williams: A Portrait in Song – Hour long documentary on the legendary jazz and blues singer, shot in concert with the Count Basie Orchestra, with interviews and archival film footage.  1997. Producer/Director/co-Editor

A.K.A. Fathead – Twelve minute trailer for documentary on David “Fathead” Newman. 2006. Cameraperson/Editor.

Marilyn Crispell solo concert.  Webcast. 2011.  Director

HEALERS, SHAMANS AND SUCH

Music and Dance of the Shua r – The  Shuar are indigenous people of the Ecuadorian rainforest.  Their sacred songs – anents –  accompany much of their activity such as planting, hunting, fishing.  Footage was part of a documentary on the recording of their songs, dance and other activities.  Ends with night vision footage of  shaman performing an extraction on an ill patient.  2000.Cameraperson/Editor.

Marilyn and the Maori - Unfinished documentary on pianist Marilyn Crispell’s trip to New Zealand to play music based on the Maori creation myth.  2000. Cameraperson/Editor.

John of God  – A twenty minute pilot for a documentary about the Brazilian trance healer, John of God (João de Deus), who treats, and often heals, people of afflictions ranging from depression to AIDS, “incurable” blindness to “untreatable” cancer.  2005. Cameraperson/Editor.

Healing Nayelli – Documentary about an adopted indigenous Mexican child who, after diagnosed with developmental disorders, is taken by her parents to shamans and other healers in search of a cure. 2009. Editor.

OTHER

Ghenghis Blues (1996) and A Great Day in Harlem (1995). Two Academy Award nominated docmentaries. Consultant.

The Shamanic Film/Video Archive, Inc. (1991-1999) – The SF/VA was a not-for-profit organization that lent video camcorders to those with authentic contact with shamanic cultures, collected and helped edit some of this footage, gave workshops and screened films on shamanism. Co-Founder and co-Director.

Cameraperson/writer/editor/producer/director on a variety of documentary and non documentary projects.  1980 – 2010.

FILM FESTIVALS

Works screened at many film festivals as well as at the Library of Congress, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Museum of Broadcasting.

Curator of the Woodstock Jazz on Film Festival, 1997 – 98; and the San Miguel de Allende (Mexico) Jazz on Film Festival, 1997 – 99.

Founder and Director of the “In-the-Works” Film and Video Festival, Woodstock, NY 2003-2009.  Mostly monthly events where filmmakers screened their works in progress for an audience of other filmmakers, film buffs, producers and anyone interested in the creative process.