EMMA PIPER-BURKET
WRITER • DIRECTOR • EDITOR • PRODUCER • RESEARCHER
FILMOGRAPHY
JARMO / THE IRAQI SEED PROJECT director, producer, camera, editor // Iraq, USA // Digital, 8mm // documentary // post-production
SNAP director, producer, camera, editor // USA // 16mm // Music Video, 2 minutes // 2017
STATION GIRL co-director, co-producer, co-camera, co-editor // USA // 16mm // Music Video, 5 minutes // 2017
THE MAN IN THE BUSHES co-director, co-producer, co-camera, co-editor // USA // 16mm // experimental, 6 minutes // 2017
#BESTDIRECTORS director, producer, camera, editor // USA // iPhone, USB Microscope // experimental documentary, 3 min // 2017
DREAM CITY director, producer, camera, editor // Czech Republic, Iraq, USA // DSLR, 16mm // documentary, 52 min // 2016, Distribution: Fandor
AN ADVENTURE COLLECTOR COMES TO TOWN director, writer, editor // Czech Republic, USA // 16mm, fiction, 8 minutes, 2013
HOW TO BUILD A TERRARIUM director, writer, editor // Czech Republic, USA // 16mm, experimental documentary, 15 min, 2013
TOUR OF THE SULAYMANIYAH MUSEUM director, camera, editor // Iraq, USA // 8mm, experimental documentary, 4 min, 2012
THE PAST IS BETTER THAN NOW director, writer, editor // Czech Republic, USA // 16mm, narrative, 9 min, 2012
CONCORDANCE co-director, co-producer, co-camera, co-editor // USA // miniDV, experimental, 7 min, 2005
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SCREENINGS & PRESENTATIONS
WNDX Festival of Moving Image • Winnipeg, Canada, October 2017 // #bestdirectors, Official Selection
17 Days Video Series, Volume 10 • Western Michigan University & Alfred State College, Fall 2017 // How to Build a Terrarium, Day 15
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Banned Series • Winnipeg, Canada, April 2017 // Dream City, ACLU Fundraiser
Exploded View Gallery • Tucson, AZ, USA, February 2017 // Dream City
Filmette Film Festival • New York, NY, USA, November 2016 // Dream City, Official Selection
High Coast International Film Festival • Sweden, 2016 // How to Build a Terrarium, Official Selection
Anthology Film Archives • NY, USA 2016 // How to Build a Terrarium, Short Experimental Documentaries
Bideodromo Int'l Experimental Film & Video Festival • Bilbao Spain, 2015 // How to Build a Terrarium, Official Selection
Fris Hus Budapest • Hungary, 2015 // How to Build a Terrarium, Official Selection
Sheffield Doc/Fest • UK, 2014 // How to Build a Terrarium, Videotheque
FAMUfest • Czech Republic, 2013 // How to Build a Terrarium, Official Selection
Jihlava Documentary Film Festival • Czech Republic, 2013 // How to Build a Terrarium, Special Screening
Armory Art Space • Pasadena, CA, USA, 2013 // Tour of the Sulaymaniyah Museum, MIA Screening
Monaco Charity Film Festival • Monaco, 2013 // The Past is Better than Now, Special Jury Prize
NDU international Film Festival • Lebanon, 2012 // The Past is Better than Now, Official Selection
Temple University/Slow Food Temple • Philadelphia, USA 2012 // The Iraqi Seed Project, Anthropology of Food Presentation
Anthology Film Archives • New York, USA, 2011 // The Iraqi Seed Project, Hungry Filmmakers
Franklin and Marshall College • Lancaster, USA, 2010 // The Iraqi Seed Project, Environmental Speakers Series
Georgetown University Student Film Festival • Washington D.C. USA, 2005 // Concordance, Best Cinematography Award
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FELLOWSHIPS/SEMINARS/RESIDENCIES
Sundance/Roger Ebert Fellowship for Film Criticism // Park City, USA, 2017
Marble House Project Artist-in-Residence // Vermont, USA, 2016
Oberhausen Seminar Fellow, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen // Germany, 2016
International Filmmaking Academy // Bologna, Italy, 2014
Civil Development Organization Media Fellow // Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, 2012
The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar // The Age of Migration // USA, 2008
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PUBLICATIONS
THE HISTORY OF AMERICA AND RUSSIA'S CINEMATIC COLD WAR RogerEbert.com, July 2017 THE HOUSE IS BLACK Reverse Shot's Executive Order Symposium, May 2017 THE MOST INFLUENTIAL DIRECTORS OF ALL TIME Women Writers Week, RogerEbert.com, March 2017 SUNDANCE 2017: THE NATURAL WORLD IN THE NEW CLIMATE SIDEBAR AND BEYOND RogerEbert.com, February 2017 SUNDANCE 2017 INTERVIEW: “KUSO” // FLYING LOTUS RogerEbert.com, January 2017 FIRST LOOK 2017: HIGH HOPES Reverse Shot, January 2017 REVERSE SHOT'S BEST OF 2016 Contributor to end of year top 10 list, January 2017 AGNES VARDA, FROM THEN TO NOW Reverse Shot's CineVardaUtopia symposium, December 2016 THE WOLFPACK/MUSTANG Reverse Shot's True Stories symposium, May 2016 TOWARD AN IRAQI KURDISH CINEMA Reverse Shot, September 2015. RENEWING AGRICULTURE IN IRAQ Article for Solutions Journal Vol. 2/Issue 3, May 2011 A DAY EXPLORING THE ORIGINS OF AGRICULTURE IN IRAQI KURDISTAN Soiled and Seeded, 2011
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PRESS
FILM INQUIRY Film Review: “Dream City: A Personal Documentary with Political Impact,” by Sasha Kohan, May 18 2017
ROGEREBERT.COM “Ebert Fellows Announced for Sundance 2017” by Chaz Ebert, December 21 2016
THE SPLENDID TABLE “The Struggle to Make Farming Cool Among Iraqi Youth.” Radio Interview, February 2012
NPR FOOD FOR THOUGHT, KLCC Radio Interview, Iraqi Seed Project, October 2 2011
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL “Activist helping revive Iraqi agriculture visits farms here,” by Ad Crable, September 28 2010
CBS NEWS “Cooking Classes on the Small Screen” by Gina Pace, July 9 2009
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WORK EXPERIENCE
FILMMAKER • WRITER / DIRECTOR / EDITOR / PRODUCER
Experimental, documentary, narrative and web films in US, Czech Republic, Greece, Mexico, Ukraine, Jordan and Iraq // 2005-present
CO-FOUNDER / DIRECTOR
Play Farm, artist retreat and residence, film production, curated store, and art camp in rural Oregon // 2009-present
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR
Part-Time filmmaking Instructor at Transmedia in College of Visual & Performing Arts, Syracuse University // 2017-present
OUTREACH PRODUCER / RESEARCHER
Love Thy Nature, dir. Sylvie Rokab, documentary, USA, 2016-present
VIDEO EDITOR
TheTrendy, The Talko, YouTube Channels, 2017-present
EDITOR
Mothers, dir. Owen Shapiro, documentary, 27 minutes, USA, 2017
PRODUCER/EDITOR
Shells, dir. Vasilios Papaioannu, experimental fiction, 11 minutes USA, 2017
• Winner of Best Experimental Short, Oregon Independent Film Festival, 2017
• Winner of Best Experimental Short, FeelTheReel UK, 2017
OUTREACH COORDINATOR
States of Grace, dir. Mark Lipman & Helen Cohen, documentary, USA, 2016-2017
PRODUCER
KIEV/MOSCOW, dir. Anna Lyubynetska, fiction, 24 min, (Czech Republic/Ukraine), 2016
• Official Selection, LA Film Festival, 2017
• Winner of Czech Lion Award for Best Student Film, 2017
• Winner of Jury and Audience Awards at Kiev Short Film Festival, 2017
• Special Jury Mention, Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz Art, 2017
EDITOR
Buddha's Homecoming, dir. Ngawang Choephel, documentary, USA, 2016
CAMERA / EDITOR
Portraits That Move, web, USA, 2016
EDITOR
Why English Matters, Cutter Productions, Alternate Content, Season 2, web, USA, 2016
DIRECTOR / CAMERA / EDITOR
The Urinal Project, 4 min. PSA, Iraq, 2015
ASSISTANT EDITOR
MTV Rebel Music Season 2, Native America and Venezuela Episodes, USA, 2014
EDITOR
“O,” dir. Luke Lungyin Lim, experimental narrative, Taiwan/ Czech Republic, 2014
CO-FOUNDER / VICE PRESIDENT
Kitchen Caravan, content development, production, post-production, curation, and social media outreach for educational web-series focusing on healthy sustainable food culture, 2007-2011
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
The Axe in the Attic, dir. Ed Pincus & Lucia Small, documentary, USA, 2008
COMMUNICATIONS INTERN
Peace Corps, assisted senior administration in video editing, photo cataloguing, and archiving. Managed submissions and curated the selection of volunteer stories for a promotional book, 2004-2005
SALES ASSOCIATE
Smithsonian Institute // Hirshhorn Museum, 2003
INSTRUCTOR / SITE COORDINATOR
DC Reads, Supervised tutors and maintained literacy programs for DC public school children, 2001-2003
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EDUCATION
FILM AND TV SCHOOL OF THE ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS IN PRAGUE (FAMU)
MFA, Directing, Cinema and Digital Media// Thesis research: The Rise of Cinema in Iraqi Kurdistan, Thesis Film: Dream City // 2012-2015
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
BA, Double major in Arabic Language & Linguistics and Classical Studies // Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Scholarship, Award for Outstanding Achievement in Arabic, Peer Mentor // cum laude, 3.67 GPA // 2001-2005
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO
Study abroad, focus on Arabic Language and Ancient Egyptian and Nubian Art, 2003-2004
NYU SCHOOL OF CONTINUING AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES
Course: Documentary Distribution, Research and Financing, 2007
UCLA SCHOOL OF FILM, THEATER, TV AND DIGITAL MEDIA- EXTENSION
Courses: Independent Producing, Story Analysis for Film and Television and Experimental Film, 2004, 2014
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MEMBERSHIPS
Film Independent, Los Angeles
Independent Filmmaker Project, New York
National Society of Collegiate Scholars
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SKILLS & AREAS OF INTEREST
FILM PRODUCTION
Research, development, scriptwriting, pre-production, shooting, directing, post-production, editing, analogue filmmaking, alternative hand film processing, distribution, and outreach
FILM HISTORY
Documentary, Experimental/Avant-Garde, Kurdish cinema, Czech New Wave, Film Noir, Westerns, Screwball Comedies, Sci Fi
VISUAL ARTS
Sewing, drawing, ceramics, lapidary, hand drawn animation
LANGUAGES
Proficiency in Arabic and French, Beginner/Basic Comprehension Kurdish, Ancient Greek