Kira Bursky


Kira Bursky is an award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter, and artist currently based out of Asheville, NC.
All Around Artsy was founded in 2009 by Kira Bursky, a vagabonding storyteller with an insatiable hunger for magic. She has produced over 60 films and music videos that have screened at festivals around the world from Los Angeles to Berlin to Beijing. In 2014 Kira was recognized as National YoungArts Finalist and was a finalist in the White House Student Film Festival where she had the honor of screening her work in the White House. In 2015 Kira was selected as the Best Emerging Female Filmmaker at the National Film Festival for Talented Youth. In 2016 she was featured in Seventeen Magazine as the April issue's Power Girl and received the Emerging Artist to Watch grant through Le Couvent artist residency in France. Kira and her creations have been featured through NPR, Out Magazine, Pride and No Film School to name a few. Her YouTube channel has over 34,000+ subscribers and 16 million+ views.
"Bursky is just 23 years old, but the Asheville filmmaker is already on a trajectory to becoming one of America’s most incisive and distinctive auteurs." – Matt Peiken, Arts Producer BPR + NPR

Background

Kira Bursky, originally from Upper Nyack, NY, attended Asheville High School's School of Inquiry and Life Sciences program for one year and Evergreen Community Charter School for middle school. She also attended the Carolina Film Institute for one year at age 13.
She later attended high school at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan as a Motion Picture Arts major, graduating in 2014. She worked at documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock's New York-based film production company, Warrior Poets, as a post-production intern.

Awards

Her works have been featured and awarded prizes at over 100 domestic and international film festivals including the All-American High School Film Festival, the Chicago International Children's Film Festival, the Colchester International Film Festival, Guam International Film Festival, the White House Student Film Festival, Princeton Student Film Festival, and the Cannes Film Festival.


YearResultFestivalAwardWork
2014WinnerMosaic Film FestivalBest OverallGirly
2014WinnerLovett School High School Film FestBest U.S NarrativeGirly
2015WinnerMade-in-Michigan Film FestivalBest Academic FilmGirly
2014WinnerLovett School High School Film FestBest U.S. AnimationWhat Are You?
2014WinnerMosaic Film FestivalBest OverallWe're Okay
2014WinnerAll American High School Film FestivalBest Overall FilmWe're Okay
2015WinnerNational Film Festival For Talented YouthBest Emerging Female FilmmakerWe're Okay
2014WinnerHighway 61Best Student - 2nd PlaceWe're Okay
2016WinnerHorror HourBest Horror High School Short FilmWe're Okay
2016WinnerRamūno Ateljė Independent International Film AwardsBest Teenager FilmReally Looking
2015Winner24 Hour Film RacingBest Editing & Best Sound DesignIt's Just You
2016WinnerGeorge Lindsey UNA Film FestivalBest Youth FilmmakerTree Hugger
2015WinnerLaguna Film FestivalJury Award for Best Youth Film +
Audience Award for Best Youth Film		Tree Hugger
2016WinnerFestival Internacional de Cine y Audiovisual Infantil y JuvenilBest Film in +13 Audio VisualTree Hugger
2015WinnerStarLite Film FestivalBest Domestic Student ShortDemons in Disguise
2016WinnerLittle ElephantBest Maxi 2Demons in Disguise
2014WinnerWhite House Student Film FestivalFinalistHello From Malaysia
2014WinnerMY HERO International Film FestivalBest High School Narrative - 2nd PlaceHello From Malaysia
2015WinnerLovett School High School Film FestBest U.S. AnimationWarm Rush
2014WinnerJosiah Media FestivalBest Experimental - 2nd PlaceWarm Rush
2015WinnerBrighton Youth Film FestivalBest International Short FilmHattie
2015WinnerSeattle Horror 48 Hour Film ProjectBest FilmAdulthood
2016WinnerHuntsville 48 Hour Film ProjectBest FilmFootplant
2017WinnerMusic Video AshevilleBest Music Video + Best EditingDancing Children
2017WinnerFilmSPARKBest Kids and Family FilmDancing Children
2017WinnerMusic Video AshevilleBest Visual DesignWe Are the People
2017Winner100 Words Film FestivalBest Scripted FilmFake Emma
2017WinnerNorth Carolina Family Film Festival 2017Best NC ShortTo and From
2017WinnerGrenada Afterglow Film FestivalBest AfterTHOUGHTTo and From
2018WinnerAsheville 48 Hour Film ProjectBest FilmShe Once Was Distant
2018WinnerNew Orleans 48 Hour Film ProjectBest Film Runner UpDemon Pills
2018WinnerMusic Video AshevilleBest Visual DesignYou Help Me Fall Asleep
2017WinnerAll-American High School Film FestivalBest College DocClose to the Window
2018WinnerPlanet Why's YUP SelectedAudience Choice AwardClose to the Window
2018WinnerFilmPlayaGolden Pocket PistolPeriod.
2018WinnerBerlin Liberi Film FestivalBest in FestPeriod.
2019WinnerJim Thorpe Independent Film FestivalBest Experimental FilmPeriod.
2019WinnerMusic Video AshevilleBest Music Video + Best EditingCarolina Stomp

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