Charles Burmeister’s short films have appeared at the Austin Film Festival, Dallas Video Festival, San Antonio Film Festival and the VIDEOEX Experimental Film Festival in Zurich, Switzerland.  His first feature-length film, a documentary film called “The Kind of Sixth Street,” premiered at the Independent Film Festival of Boston, 2003 where it won the Special Jury Award for Documentary Feature.  A screenwriter who has optioned a script, been hired for a rewrite and won several awards, he was a recipient of a Michener Fellowship in Writing at the University of Texas at Austin where he received his MFA in screenwriting in 1998.  He is currently developing a feature narrative film he plans to direct in 2004.