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Tom Burstyn

CSC, FRSA is an Emmy nominated filmmaker with 30 years experience as a cinematographer. He trained at the National Film Board of Canada as a documentary maker, before moving into feature films. Tom’s latest film Some Kind of Love is currently in post-production. It won the 2013 HotDocs Pitch Forum. The Oscar short-listed and multi-award winning This Way of Life has won 16 international awards and sold to 22 countries. The eco film One Man, One Cow, One Planet has won numerous awards and screened in 18 countries. His early documentaries were If Brains were Dynamite You Wouldn’t Have Enough To Blow Your Nose about an avant garde artist, Flash William about a hermit filmmaker in the Rocky Mountains. Le Patriote about a milestone nightclub in Montreal and Profiles in Rock a series of profiles of rock legends including Super Tramp, The OJ’s, Cool and Gang, Chic, Earth, Wind and Fire, the Bellamy Brothers and Smokey Robinson.

Barbara Sumner Burstyn

Barbara ‘Sumner’ Burstyn founded Cloud South Films (NZ) with Tom Burstyn in 2005 and Cloud South North Films (Canada) in 2013. She has produced three feature documentaries, a number of television commercials and instructional films. Sumner has line-produced documentaries for the NFB (Buying Sex) and the Public Schools of Los Angeles, is widely published in New Zealand and was an award winning social issues columnist and features writer. Her latest documentary Some Kind of Love is in post-production while her previous film This Way of Life was shortlisted for an Oscar and won 12 international awards and sold to 22 countries. An earlier film One Man, One Cow has won multiple awards and sold to 16 countries. Her book based on This Way of Life was published by Harper Collins in 2012. She is currently working on an historical fiction, a comedy feature film about surrogacy and a documentary about a legendary New York artist. She is a New Zealand citizen and a Canadian Permanent Resident.