October 2006
 Kevin
Burton (Cree) is a director, editor, and camera operator.
In 2005 his film Meskanahk (My Path) won the Cynthia Lickers-Sage
Award for Emerging Talent at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts
Festival in Toronto. He worked as a picture editor and camera
operator on The Healing Blanket, a four-part documentary
series by Loretta Todd. He currently works as the Native Initiative
assistant at the Sundance Institute in Beverly Hills, California.
Burton studied Aboriginal Film and Television Production at Capilano
College in North Vancouver, British Columbia. He is on the board
of directors of Indigenous Media Arts Group in Vancouver. Burton,
who speaks Cree and English, is from God's Lake Narrows First
Nation in Manitoba.
Screened by NMAI
Image credit:
Kevin Burton - courtesy of the filmmaker
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