Preston Burger
My name is Preston Burger and I am a 17-year-old high school student. My film, COLORING THE SILVER SCREEN: African Americans On The Film Frontier, is the fourth documentary I have produced. This past May it received a GOLD AWARD in the High School category from Worldfest, the Houston International Film Festival. In Gain it won BEST DOCUMENTARY at the Temple University, Derek Freese Film Festival in Philadelphia. It was also recently featured at FACETS, the Chicago Children's International Film Festival.
Over a nine month period of research I was able to gather over eighty primary resources from such sources as the National Archives in Washington D.C, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and The Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center in Los Angeles, California. On all my films I serve as the producer/director, writer, editor, photographer and researcher.
Synopsis
COLORING THE SILVER SCREEN: African Americans On The Film Frontier is a ten minute documentary chronicling African Americans efforts to settle on the new cultural frontier of film. It illustrates how their fight to change the way they were portrayed on film was part of a larger struggle for equality and respect as United States Citizens over the past century.
My name is Preston Burger and I am a 17-year-old high school student. My film, COLORING THE SILVER SCREEN: African Americans On The Film Frontier, is the fourth documentary I have produced. This past May it received a GOLD AWARD in the High School category from Worldfest, the Houston International Film Festival. In Gain it won BEST DOCUMENTARY at the Temple University, Derek Freese Film Festival in Philadelphia. It was also recently featured at FACETS, the Chicago Children's International Film Festival.
Over a nine month period of research I was able to gather over eighty primary resources from such sources as the National Archives in Washington D.C, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and The Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center in Los Angeles, California. On all my films I serve as the producer/director, writer, editor, photographer and researcher.
Synopsis
COLORING THE SILVER SCREEN: African Americans On The Film Frontier is a ten minute documentary chronicling African Americans efforts to settle on the new cultural frontier of film. It illustrates how their fight to change the way they were portrayed on film was part of a larger struggle for equality and respect as United States Citizens over the past century.
