About Burt

Burt Shapiro has seen 11,000 different films ranging from Calamity Jane and Rear Window (when originally released, at the Crest and the Uptown in Baltimore) through Orphens of the Storm to Sound of My Voice and back again. He continued to pursue his interests while achieving lousy grades in high school and as an undergraduate at Maryland. While living and working in New York, he was accepted by the NYU School of Cinema Studies. It was when the screening room was over the Fillmore East on Second Avenue and in William Everson’s living room, a locale for the very hard core. He watched hardly ever seen films before VHS, Beta, laser disc, DVD and blu ray. His time in New York also gave him a life shattering shock when a Saturday Museum of Modern Art screening of A Condemned Man Escapes offered his most electric moment. Applause shattered the silence before “Fin” even filled the screen. The same can be said about his toddler granddaughter, Sophie, when she picks up the microphone to sing.