Barbara Sumner Burstyn

Producer and writer Barbara Sumner Burstyn is an award winning, widely published journalist, in New Zealand. She produced the multi-award winning documentary One Man, One Cow, One Planet. A selection of her written work can be viewed at: www.sumnerburstyn.com

Producer, Director, Writer
Present: Research, writing, directing, producing documentaries for Cloud South Films.

Author: The Meningococcal Gold Rush report and the MeNZB Quick Guide. Public speaker: The bad science, manipulation and dishonesty surrounding the development and marketing of the MeNZB vaccine.

Weekly columnist: The New Zealand Herald.
1998 – present: Free-lance writer; features, profiles and investigative articles: (in NZ) The New Zealand Listener, Sunday Star Times, design magazine Urbis, business magazine Unlimited, Air New Zealand In-flight Panorama, The National Business Review, contemporary culture publications Metro, Pulp, Investigate, Flash and Loop, Grace and New Idea. The Independent on Sunday (UK), Montreal Gazette (Quebec), Sailing (USA), Harpers Bazaar (Aust.) Ottawa Citizen, MacLean’s, Vancouver Sun, Readers Digest (Canada)

Qantas Media Awards
Winner: Best Social Issues Columnist 2004
Finalist: Columnist 2004

Contact Barbara at barb@cloudsouth.co.nz - 64 6 836 7116