| Bruce Burgess | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | filmmaker |
| Years active | 1987–present |
Bruce Burgess is a documentary filmmaker.
Burgess has written, directed and hosted a series of documentary specials on potentially conspirational subjects like Bigfoot, the Bermuda Triangle, ancient history, alien abductions, the British Royal family, CIA assassinations and global terrorism.
In 2002 Burgess formed a Los Angeles based production company, Bluebook Films, with René Barnett, and in 2004 wrote and directed his first 35mm short film Rosbeef which premiered "out of competition" at the Cannes Film Festival. Burgess and Barnett have just completed production on Bloodline.
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Born in London, England in 1968, Burgess studied at Hill House School in London, then Harrow School, before starting his own charity in 1986, EDUCAID, raising money through schools for Bob Geldof’s Band Aid Trust.
In 1988 Burgess handled the launch events and promotion of the London Daily News for Robert Maxwell.
From 1988-90 he worked for BreakMarketing, a subsidiary of Harvey Goldsmith Entertainments working on promotion, marketing and sponsorship with Luciano Pavarotti, Madonna, Elton John, Eric Clapton, George Michael, Level 42 and Michael Jackson. He was also the youngest ever producer of Peter Boizot’s Soho Jazz Festival.
From 1990-93 he was asked to be managing director of Unique Public Relations in London, representing major clients from both the UK and US, including Snapple Beverages, Amalfi restaurants, Panini Publishing, Maxwell Communications, Tobacco Dock Development, The Duke of Edinburgh's Awards Scheme, The Trocadero Centre and Heller Macaulay Equities.
From 1993-1999, he was Chairman of Transmedia Productions, which he built into Britain’s fifth largest independent production company.
In 1996 Burgess created the London Restaurant Awards, which later became the ITV London Restaurant Awards. In 1998 Bruce founded the first ever London Restaurant Week with American Express and The London Tourist Board.
In 1998 Burgess was asked to become a media adviser to the Conservative Party by the Rt. Hon. William Hague.
He was interviewed on Nightline about his film Bloodline.[1]
Burgess has won awards for his BBC documentary Sabina’s Story (1998), as well as his expose of the terror group ETA in Bombs & Basques (2001) for Channel 4 in the UK. His film on Area 51, Dreamland was voted best documentary by UFO Magazine in 1998, and top of the ‘viewers choice poll’ of TLC Channel in 2003.
Burgess directed the documentary Dreamland,[2] an alleged exposé of the secret Pentagon facility known as Area 51, that was described as an example of uncritical reporting:
"...infuriating nonsense to mark the 50th anniversary of the crash at Roswell, New Mexico. The usual suspects are rounded up to tow their party lines (Stanton Friedman, Bob Lazar, et al.) and producer/director/would be intrepid presenter Bruce Burgess does absolutely nothing to question what he's being told or even point out the idiocy of some of the arguments."[3]
Bloodline (2008), writer/director
Rosbeef (2004), writer/director
The Ark of the Covenant Revealed (2004), director
Desert Blast (2003), director
In Search of the Holy Grail (2003), director
Bigfootville (2002), director
Network of Terror (2001), director
Bombs & Basques - In the Firing Line (2001), director
The Bermuda Triangle Solved (2001), director
The Real Jack the Ripper (2000), director
William: A King in Waiting (2000), director
Broken Dagger (2000), director
Raising the Titanic (1999), director
Rocket Men (1999), director
Crossing the Line-Sabina’s Story (1998), director
Bulletcatchers (1998), director
The Lost Ark (1997), director
The Royal Soap Opera (1997), director
Dreamland (1996), director
William: The Making of a King (1996), director
Impact Earth (1996), director
The Uninvited (1995), director
The Cattle Files (1997), director
Raw 94 (1994), director
The Restaurant Show (1993), director