Filmmaker Charles Burnett - An Artistic Giant Shares His Journey from Watts to the Academy Awards

Charles Burnett is an American film director, producer, writer, editor, actor, photographer, and cinematographer. His most popular films include Killer of Sheep (1977), My Brother’s Wedding (1983), To Sleep with Anger (1990), The Glass Shield (1994), and Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007). He has been involved in other types of motion pictures including shorts, documentaries, and TV series. Considered by the Chicago Tribune as “one of America’s very best filmmakers”, and by the New York Times as “the nation’s least-known great filmmaker and most gifted black director” Two of his movies were added to the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry: Killer of Sheep and To Sleep with Anger. https://www.facebook.com/OfficialCharlesBurnettNewsPage/ https://www.instagram.com/1charlesburnett/ https://www.instagram.com/diprimaradio/