Dennis Burke - Dirt World Premiere

Dennis Burke (Associate Dean, Degree Programs) completed sound design and supervisor work for the feature documentary, Dirt.

Dirt will be premiering at DOXA this month and was written, directed and produced by Meghna Haldar. The film explores the history of dirt - as material, as metaphor and what it means to be treated like dirt. Ultimately, it's a film about otherness, rottenness, crud, decay, fear, perversity, death, dying, chaos, and strife in an era of instant disposability. The film's central thesis lies in making the connection between the way we treat our disposables, and the way we treat people we think of as disposable. Haldar, a native of India, travels to South Asia and throughout North America seeking to understand how those on the outside became that way.

World Premiere
Dirt
DOXA Documentary Film Festival 2008
Saturday, May 31 at 7pm
Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour St)
Tickets: www.doxafestival.ca

Dennis Burke also completed the music, sound design and mix for the film Tailor Made: Chinatown's Last Tailors which won the prestigious Golden Reel Award for Best Short Film at the 2008 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. The film was directed by Leonard Lee and Vancouver filmmaker Marsha Newbery.

UPDATE: Dennis was recently awarded a Leo Award for Best Sound Editing in a Documentary Program or Series for the film Hope along with Andre Iwanchuk and Zoe Gordon.