Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nanette Burstein (born May 23, 1970) is an American film and television director. Burstein has produced, directed, and co-directed many documentaries which have won her many awards and nominations, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary and the Sundance Special Jury Prize for Documentary. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nanette Burstein, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​