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

• Nikamowin (2007) director
• Writing the Land (2007) director
• Meskanahk (My Path) (2005) director
  

Image credit: Kevin Burton - courtesy of the filmmaker