Nanette Burstein

New Line Cinema has hired documentarian Nanette Burstein ( American Teen ) to direct romantic comedy Going the Distance , with Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot producing through their Offspring Entertainment. ... Full Article

Friday, August 15, 2008 By Barbara Vancheri, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette If a filmmaker had stumbled across Nanette Burstein during her high school days in Buffalo, he might have found a rich subject. "My freshman year, I got into the more popular ... Full Article

Whatever barely discernible line may yet remain between the traditional documentary and "reality programming," American Teen clearly has no use for it. About midway through this ostensible portrait of ordinary adolescence, which was filmed over the course of a single... ... Full Article

By Christy Lemire, AP movie critic Friday, August 8, 2008 The documentary "American Teen" doesn't tell you anything you didn't already know about high school. ... Full Article

The American teenager has been the subject of so much dissection and analysis in popular culture that a documentary titled American Teen initially sounds redundant. ... Full Article