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Born in Mississippi and raised in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, Charles Burnett is an Oscar® winning independent filmmaker, director and producer whose work has been praised for its portrayal of the Black experience. A MacArthur grant recipient and a Guggenheim Fellow, Burnett wrote, directed, produced, photographed, and edited his first feature film, Killer of Sheep, in 1977, in which he started working on as his UCLA thesis feature film.��

Since then, the United States Library of Congress has declared the film a 'national treasure,' as one of the first fifty films on the National Film Registry, and the National Society of Film Critics selected it as one of the "100 Essential Films" of all time.Other of his films include The Glass Shield, a groundbreaking narrative on police corruption and violence, My Brother’s Wedding, and To Sleep With Anger (starring Danny Glover).

Burnett’s nonfiction work includes The Blues (“Warming by the Devils’ Fire”), produced by Martin Scorsese, Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property, and Annihilation of Fish with James Earl Jones and Lynn Redgrave.