
Interview with James Burke
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JAMES
BURKE - director
As part of his company, entitled
entertainment, James Burke served as executive producer on Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
starring Matthew McConaughey, John Turturro, Amy Irving and Alan Arkin,
and on Levity starring Billy
Bob Thornton, Morgan Freeman, Holly Hunter and Kirsten Dunst, both of
which were released by Sony Pictures Classics in 2002 and 2003,
respectively.
He was also part of the producer team on the Tony award winning
Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's Long Days Journey Into Night
starring Vanessa Redgrave, Brian Dennehy and Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
He directed the short film Borderline,
written by John Bishop, which won awards at the Charleston World/Fest
and the Houston Film Festival. He has also directed for theater, and is
a graduate of the Directing Program at the American Film Institute.
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