Nanette Burstein on today’s American Teen. An interview with the director of the award-winning documentary. By Nathan Lerner. Fort Wayne Reader. 2008-08-18. When American Teen played on the festival circuit, Nanette Burstein’s documentary feature about a quintet of seniors in a Warsaw, Indiana high college generated a lot of buzz.
Really, though, American Teen is stronger without calamitous characters, whose traumas might’ve overpowered the film, desensitizing the audience and leaving little room for the important nuances
Burstein: I would love to make both, like Michael Apted did and Martin Scorcese. That would be my ideal situation. That would be my ideal situation. American Teen opens in New York and L.A. on
American Teen is a 2008 documentary film directed by Nanette Burstein (On the Ropes, The Stays in the Picture) and produced by 57th & Irving. It competed in the Documentary Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival , where it received the Directing Award: Documentary. [1]
Media Reviews American Teen, dir. Nanette Burstein, 2008. American Teen is a feature length documentary that depicts the lives of fi ve midwestern students over the course of their fi nal year at Warsaw Com-munity High college in Indiana.
American Teen’s high collegeers know as much, and fall naturally into their roles: the princess Megan, the jock Colin, the geek Jake, the heartthrob Mitch and the rebel Hannah. Under Burstein’s
"American Teen" follows the lives of five teenagers–a jock, a popular teen, a heartthrob, an artsy teen and a geek–in one small town in Indiana through their senior year of high college. We see
The main teenage participants are interviewed; only Megan’s parents are interviewed. Jake and Hannah had the most time spent on them’ perhaps because they represented stereotypes which had more depth and complexity than the other.
Plot Summary: "American Teen" is the touching and hilarious Sundance hit that follows the lives of five teenagers – a jock, a popular teen, a heartthrob, an artsy teen and a geek – in one small
Aug 15, 2008 · American TEEN is an enjoyable, refreshing documentary that will inevitably play differently to all who see it, as everyone had a different cent experience. Some have moved on while others still hear the echoes of torment or thrill in their minds.
