Maria Burton

Named by Variety as "talent to watch," Burton has directed 6 successful independent feature films, the latest of which are available on Netflix and Amazon. Burton helms Five Sisters Productions with her real-life siblings, through which she directed the pilot for the short form series "Old Guy" and produced The Happiest Day of His Life (MTV/Logo), Kings, Queens & In-Betweens, and Julia Sweeney's "Letting Go of God" (Showtime). She's been selected for TV Directing fellowships including Disney/ABC, CBS, Ryan Murphy's HALF, SONY and ProjectHER, for which she wrote and directed the short pilot Good Eggs. Burton has served on the National Board of the DGA, as Co-Chair of the DGA's WSC and is Emeritus Board of Alliance of Women Directors and a member of Film Fatales. She's currently developing projects including The Pepper, and Mercury 13, a drama inspired by the women tested for the original astronaut program, which has been named to the Athena List, the BitchList/Bechdel List, won a CineStory Fellowship, and is a Nicholl Quarterfinalist.