Charles Burnett

Charles Burnett is an American film director producer writer editor actor photographer and cinematographer His most popular films include Killer of Sheep 1977 My Brothers Wedding 1983 To Sleep with Anger 1990 The Glass Shield 1994 and Namibia The Struggle for Liberation 2007 He has been involved in other types of motion pictures including shorts documentaries and a TV series Considered by the Chicago Tribune as one of Americas very best filmmakers and by the New York Times as the nations leastknown great filmmaker and most gifted black director Charles Burnett has had a long and diverse filmmaking career