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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Actor Born: January 29, 1968 Biography:One of a number of American independent filmmakers launched to prominence in the '90s by virtue of their success at the Sundance Film Festival, writer/director "Edward Burns" was born in Woodside, Queens, in 1968 and raised on Long Island. After attending Oneonta College and S.U.N.Y.-Albany, he transferred to Hunter College in New York City to study motion pictures; there he helmed a number of short films, including the 15-minute Hey, Sco! Upon graduating, Burns began working at a local news outlet and made Brandy, a 45-minute effort screened as a work in progress at the 1992 Independent Feature Film Market.
During the spring of 1993, while working as a production assistant for the television newsmagazine Entertainment Tonight, Burns began conceiving "The Brothers McMullen", a comedy focusing on the romantic troubles facing three Irish-Catholic siblings. Shot primarily in his parents' Long Island... Full Biography
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