Nanette Burstein (born May 23, 1970) is an American film and television director . Burstein has produced , directed , and co-directed several documentaries including the Academy Award nominated and Sundance Special Jury Prize winning film On the Ropes .
18-505: Burstein studied film at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts . In 1997 she collaborated on her first film with Brett Morgen , producing and directing On the Ropes , a low-budget documentary that follows the fates of three young boxers and their trainer. The film, shot mainly on BetaSP, was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary (feature length), won Special Jury Prize for Documentary at Sundance, won
36-684: A donation from Laurence A. and Preston Robert Tisch that made possible the acquisition and renovation of the location at 721 Broadway where most of the school's programs are housed. In recognition of the generosity of the Tisch family, the school was renamed Tisch School of the Arts in 1982. Tisch School of the Arts has three institutes and 16 programs and offers the Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Bachelor of Arts (BA), Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Master of Arts (MA), Master of Professional Studies (MPS), and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees. Tisch also offers
54-449: A failed lawsuit brought by three former students. During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 , which forced NYU to move academic instruction online, many Tisch students demanded a tuition refund, believing that virtual classes did not adequately meet their academic needs as a school for performing, cinematic, and media arts. In one of many pandemic-related emails, the school's dean sent students
72-505: A few years. Following the creation of the undergraduate Department of Drama in 1974, the school expanded to include the Interactive Telecommunications Program , Department of Dramatic Writing, Department of Performance Studies , Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, Department of Photography and Imaging, and The Department of Art and Public Policy. In 1982, the school's second dean, David Oppenheim , solicited
90-568: A selection of classes to NYU students not enrolled in any of its programs through the Open Arts curriculum. The three institutes are: The school also offers an inter-disciplinary "collaborative arts" program, as well as the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music (founded by Arista Records CEO Clive Davis ), one of the few programs in the US to combine musical arts and business strategies in
108-502: A video of herself dancing to R.E.M. 's "Losing My Religion", intended to raise community spirit. After hearing from students, the dean further clarified that individual schools have no control over tuition and that it was "challenging" for the university to give students their money back at the time. Waverly Place Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
126-999: The Arts The New York University Tisch School of the Arts (commonly referred to as Tisch ) is the performing , cinematic, and media arts school of New York University . Founded on August 17, 1965, as the School of the Arts at New York University, Tisch is a training ground for artists, scholars of the arts, and filmmakers. The school is divided into three Institutes: Performing Arts, Emerging Media, and Film & Television. Many undergraduate and graduate disciplines are available for students, including acting , dance , drama , performance studies , design for stage and film , musical theatre writing, photography , record producing , game design and development , and film and television studies . The school also offers an inter-disciplinary "collaborative arts" program, high school programs, continuing education in
144-677: The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, the Interactive Telecommunications/Interactive Media Arts programs (ITP & IMA), and the Game Center; these programs work in collaboration with departments in media technology from NYU's Tandon School of Engineering and Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development . As of 2019, 22 Academy Award winners, 17 Emmy Award winners, 12 Tony Award winners, and four Grammy Award winners have been affiliated with Tisch alumni and faculty . As of 2017 ,
162-978: The Directors Guild of America's award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary. The film also won the International Documentary Association's Feature Documentary award, a Silver Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Urbanworld Film Festival Best Documentary, and the Land Grant Award at the Taos Talking Picture Festival. The film was also nominated for an Independent Spirit Award (“Truer than Fiction” award). In 1998 with Nancy Tong she co-wrote
180-402: The arts for the general public, as well as the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, which teaches entrepreneurial strategies in the music recording industry. A dual MFA / MBA graduate program is also offered, allowing students to take coursework at both Tisch and NYU's Stern School of Business . It is located at 721 Broadway (the intersection of Broadway and Waverly Place ), adjacent to
198-469: The arts. NYU's first branch campus abroad was the result of a partnership with Singapore Government agencies under Singapore's Global Schoolhouse program. Tisch Asia was also Singapore's first graduate arts school and offered Master of Fine Arts degrees in animation and digital arts, dramatic writing, film, and international media producing. Summer programs included professional workshops and non-credit certificate courses. The campus opened in fall 2007 on
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#1732858453383216-608: The doc American Shopper . Her documentary American Teen was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival . For the project, she lived in the small town of Warsaw, Indiana for 10 months, filming daily. She ended up with 1000 hours of footage, which took a year to edit. Nanette is the mother of one daughter. She lives in New York and co-owned a Manhattan bar, The Half-King, with Scott Anderson , and Sebastian Junger . Tisch School of
234-649: The former Ministry of Education & Republic Polytechnic grounds at 3 Kay Siang Road, Singapore, with the intention to enroll approximately 250 students. The anticipated enrollment figures were not achieved, financial losses and embezzlement were alleged and Tisch Asia President Pari Sara Shirazi was dismissed from her post by NYU in November 2011. She subsequently lost a lawsuit claiming defamation and breach of contract. The Tisch Asia campus closed in 2014, with polarised recollections, ranging from positive endorsement, to allegations that it had been "an educational scam" in
252-430: The recording industry . A dual MFA / MBA graduate program is also offered, allowing students to take coursework at both Tisch and NYU's Stern School of Business. It also offers high school programs (the "Tisch Summer High School Program" and "Spring Future Artists Programs") as an outgrowth of the undergraduate classes, and professional courses for the general public as part of a commitment to continuing education in
270-574: The school had more than 25,000 alumni working in the arts and related professions, and the school has more alumni in Broadway theatre than any other school for theater in the United States. The School of the Arts at New York University was founded on August 17, 1965, to provide conservatory training in theater and film in the context of a research university. The school created additional departments such as dance, theatre design, and cinema studies within
288-797: The script for Tong's matter-of-fact documentary In the Name of the Emperor of the massacre of over 300,000 Chinese civilians by the Japanese in the Rape of Nanjing in 1937. In 2002 she and Morgen teamed up again for the Robert Evans biography The Kid Stays in the Picture . The film was very positively reviewed and won the International Press Academy and Boston Society of Film Critics award for Best Documentary. It
306-563: The university's Department of Philosophy building and the Gallatin School of Individualized Study , in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan , New York City. In 2013, NYU opened a new technology hub on its Brooklyn campus called the Media and Games Network (MAGNET). Located at 2 MetroTech Center and, beginning in 2019, 370 Jay Street , MAGNET houses three Tisch programs:
324-666: Was also nominated for Best Documentary by the Chicago, Online, Phoenix and Broadcast Film Critics. In 2004, she produced a documentary television show Film School for IFC with Jordan Roberts, following four film students at their alma mater, Tisch. In 2007 Burstein was executive producer and writer on the VH1 Rock Doc NY77: The Coolest Year In Hell which showcases the rise of hip hop, punk, disco, and graffiti in New York City in 1977. She also executive produced
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