Maria Burton(I)

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