Stephen Burleigh

Stephen Burleigh was born on Jul 29, 1949 in USA. Stephen Burleigh's big-screen debut came with Just a Little Inconvenience directed by Theodore J. Flicker in 1977, strarring Radio Man. Stephen Burleigh is known for Edge of America directed by Chris Eyre, James McDaniel stars as Kenny Williams and Irene Bedard as Annie Shorty. The upcoming new movie Stephen Burleigh plays is Edge of America which will be released on Nov 21, 2005.

Stephen Burleigh produced Edge Of America, the Official Opening Night Film at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, directed by Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals) and won the 2006 George Foster Peabody Award for it. Edge Of America was also selected for the Tribeca Film Festival, the Hampton's International Film Festival, the Nantucket Film Festival, and was voted Best Film at the Native American Film Festival in San Francisco. Chris Eyre won the DGA Award for Outstanding Direction for the film, screenwriter Willy Holtzman won the WGA Award and 2006 Humanitas Award for the screenplay, and James McDaniel won the Emmy Award for his starring performance. Edge Of America premiered on Showtime and is available on dvd. He produced the independent film, Bereft, starring Vinessa Shaw, Tim Blake Nelson, Edward Herrmann, Michael C. Hall, and Marsha Mason, which marked the directing debut of Tim Daly and award winning Director of Photography, Clark Mathis. Bereft premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and was also selected for the Seattle Film Festival, Chicago Film Festival, Hamptons International Film Festival, and the AFI Festival in Los Angeles. Burleigh was also the post production supervisor for the film. Bereft received its broadcast cable premiere on Showtime in 2005 and is available everywhere on DVD.