The Lucky Ones

Neil Burger is an American film director who has filmed the pseudo-documentary, Interview with the Assassin , the period drama, The Illusionist, and the 2011 thriller Limitless. After attending the Greenwich Country Day School and Brunswick School in Greenwich CT, Burger graduated from Yale... University with a degree in fine arts and later became involved with experimental film in the 1980s. He then went on to direct music videos for such alternative artists as the Meat Puppets and used his renown and connections to approached MTV in 1991 with the idea to create and direct a series of promotional spots for what would be the MTV "Books: Feed Your Head" campaign against aliteracy. In an interview with Shave Magazine Neil described his work as "almost like PSA’s but they weren’t really; they were like music videos for literature and language." Burger, who directed and wrote Interview with an Assassin, won Best Feature for the film at the Woodstock Film Festival. Interview with the Assassin was also been nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards, including best First Feature.
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