A Success Story for Slackers
An Interview with waydowntown Writer/Director Gary Burns
By P. Pam Sawhney
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/screenwriting/article/a_success_story_for_slackers_2787/
Gary Burns, a writer-director from Calgary, Canada, has created
three features in six years. His first, The Suburbanators
was a critical success; his second, Kitchen Party,
was called "the funniest, nastiest comedy of manners to come
down the pike in months" by The New York Times. His
latest feature, waydowntown, a smart satire on corporate
life and modern human existence, was the winner of the Best
Canadian Feature at the Toronto Film Festival in 2001 and
is currently playing in theaters throughout America. Here
Burns discusses the challenges of being a writer-director
and the pleasures involved with dreaming up stories for a
living.