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Maria Burton(I)

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Maria Burton
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Named by Variety as "talent to watch," Maria Burton has directed 6 successful independent feature films, the latest of which are available on Netflix and Amazon: A Sort of Homecoming, with Laura Marano and Katherine McNamara, and For the Love of George, with Rosanna Arquette, Tate Donovan, Rex Lee & Kristen Johnston. Earlier films include Just Friends, Temps, and Manna from Heaven (MGM/SONY). Through Five Sisters Productions, the company she runs with her real-life siblings, she directed the pilot for the Emmy qualifying short form series Old Guy and produced films including Kings, Queens & In-Betweens, and Julia Sweeney's "Letting Go of God" (Showtime). She has been selected for television directing programs including DGA's DDI Emerging Directors Mentorship, Disney/ABC's Directing Program, the CBS Directing Initiative, Ryan Murphy's HALF, SONY's Diverse Directors, and ProjectHER, for which she wrote and directed the short pilot Good Eggs. Burton has served on the National Board of the DGA (Alt), Co-Chair of the DGA's WSC and DGA's Council of Joint Co-Chairs, past Co-Chair of Alliance of Women Directors, and is a member of Film Fatales. Burton is prepping an indie film, MidLife, and developing projects including Searching for Tamsen Donner, based on her mother's award winning books, and Mercury 13, a drama inspired by the women tested for the original astronaut program, which has been named to the Athena List, the BitchList/Bechdel List, won a CineStory Fellowship, and is a Nicholl Quarterfinalist. More at
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Director Maria Burton at AWD Gala Event
Director Maria Burton, DP Arlene Nelson, actors Tate Donovan and Nadia Jordan on the set of For the Love of George
Maria Burton and Kristen Johnston on the set of For the Love of George
Maria Burton and DP Arlene Nelson on the set of For the Love of George
Five Sisters Productions (Maria, Jennifer, Ursula, Gabrielle & Charity) and parents Gabrielle Burton and Roger Burton at L.A. Times photo shoot
Maria directing Old Guy
Maria directs Old Guy
Maria Burton directing A Sort of Homecoming
Maria Burton & Ursula Burton @ LAFF 2017
Maria Burton with fellow directors from First Weekenders- supporting women directed films at the box office
Maria Burton at 1st Annual Alliance of Women Directors Gala - Beverly Hills
Maria Burton directs Parker Mack in A Sort of Homecoming

Known for

Bethany Joy Lenz in Good Eggs (2018)
Good Eggs
TV Series
  • Writer
Laura Marano in A Sort of Homecoming (2015)
A Sort of Homecoming
5.6
  • Director
  • 2015
Seymour Cassel, Shelley Duvall, Louise Fletcher, Cloris Leachman, Wendie Malick, Jill Eikenberry, Frank Gorshin, and Shirley Jones in Manna from Heaven (2002)
Manna from Heaven
5.3
  • Director
  • 2002
For the Love of George (2018)
For the Love of George
5.4
  • Director
  • 2018

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Writer

  • Pandemic Screams
    • Post-production
  • Bethany Joy Lenz in Good Eggs (2018)
    Good Eggs
  • Roger V. Burton in Old Guy (2013)
    Old Guy

Director

  • Pandemic Screams
    • Post-production
  • Kat's Coasters (2022)
    Kat's Coasters
  • Roger V. Burton in Old Guy (2020)
    Old Guy
  • Hope Builders: Making a Difference in the Inland Empire (2019)
    Hope Builders: Making a Difference in the Inland Empire
  • Bethany Joy Lenz in Good Eggs (2018)
    Good Eggs
  • For the Love of George (2018)
    For the Love of George
  • Laura Marano in A Sort of Homecoming (2015)
    A Sort of Homecoming
  • Roger V. Burton in Old Guy (2013)
    Old Guy
  • Sign My Snarling Movie: 25 Years of the Bobs
  • Seymour Cassel, Shelley Duvall, Louise Fletcher, Cloris Leachman, Wendie Malick, Jill Eikenberry, Frank Gorshin, and Shirley Jones in Manna from Heaven (2002)
    Manna from Heaven
  • Seymour Cassel, Gabrielle Burton, and Eric Casaccio in Temps (1999)
    Temps
  • Anita Barone and Anthony Palermo in Just Friends (1996)
    Just Friends

Producer

  • Pandemic Screams
    • Post-production
  • Expiration Date
    • Post-production
  • Roger V. Burton in Old Guy (2020)
    Old Guy
  • Bethany Joy Lenz in Good Eggs (2018)
    Good Eggs
  • Half the History- Belinda's Petition
  • Half the History- Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst For Change
  • Kings, Queens, & In-Betweens (2017)
    Kings, Queens, & In-Betweens
  • Roger V. Burton in Old Guy (2013)
    Old Guy
  • Letting Go of God (2008)
    Letting Go of God
  • The Happiest Day of His Life (2007)
    The Happiest Day of His Life
  • Seymour Cassel, Shelley Duvall, Louise Fletcher, Cloris Leachman, Wendie Malick, Jill Eikenberry, Frank Gorshin, and Shirley Jones in Manna from Heaven (2002)
    Manna from Heaven
  • Seymour Cassel, Gabrielle Burton, and Eric Casaccio in Temps (1999)
    Temps
  • Anita Barone and Anthony Palermo in Just Friends (1996)
    Just Friends
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    • June 3
    • Roger V. Burton
    • Ursula Burton(Sibling)
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