Justin Kalani Burbage
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Justin Kalani Burbage (/Bur-bidge/; Born July 16, 1994) Is a Hawaiian Film Director and Producer.[1] He was silent needle mover in the social world for a number of years advocating for higher production value and story telling no matter the size of the budget. His work was finally starting to be appreciated and recognized around 2019 when companies realized the value bridging the gap between traditional production and social production. This subsequently led him to being hired as Head of Production over at Josh Richards company CrossCheck studios (2022) whom were partnered with Mark Wahlberg's company Unrealistic Ideas. There he Directed and was supervising producer of break through sketch comedy show called "Read The Room" (2023-2024). After its release, Justin has had numerous offers to continue his life long passion and dream of becoming a film director. [2]
Justin Kalani Burbage was born and raised on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Since a very young age, he was always attracted to board sports, photography, airplanes traveling and most of all film. After pursuing a professional skateboarding career for a few years in Hawaii, Justin decided to move to Los Angeles at the young age of 17 to try and pursue his other loves and passions in life, being in front of the camera.
Upon arriving to LA, he was quickly whisked up in the Hollywood scene gaining friendships with the likes of some of hollywoods biggest and upcoming stars. Soon after, Justin was picked up by both a theatrical agency and commercial agency booking national and international commercials including the Samsung Galaxy 8 international launch commercial , a Nikki Minaj music video, a Tiesto Music video and two test contracts for large TV networks. [3] [4] [5]Sponsors also came along quickly after his move to Los Angeles.
In 2015 Justin realized that social media was a great way for him to showcase his love of production and storytelling. He soon left the professional athlete grind and began pursuing video and content creation for the few companies that believed in it at the time. Instagram soon began to take off for him and subsequently led to Justin being able to travel full time both domestically and internationally for the next 4 years.
In 2017 Justin began to revisit his dream of creating compelling stories for the silver screen. Under careful mentorship, Justin was urged to attend the Baron Brown Studio school of acting in a 2 year Meisner program located Santa Monica California [6]. Boasting a robust and star cladded alumni with the likes of Halle Berry, Jeff Goldblum and many more, Justin was determined to learn all he could to further his dream of Directing for the silver screen. Upon graduating from the school in 2018, Justin wanted try his hand at acting and went straight to auditioning to see what it's like from a directors stand point to which he accredits allot of his ability in working with actors.
In 2019 Justin was given his directorial debut for a full length documentary called "50 minutes to save the world" (Imdb) amassing a staggering 15 million views. This success catapulted Justins legitimacy as a compelling film director.[7] [8] [9]
Shortly after,(2022) Justin began his time at CrossCheck who garnished an exclusive First look Deal with Prime Studios as head of production where he Directed and was Supervising Producer on all 7 Episodes of their original show called "Read The Room" .[10] Some of the bigger named guest stars that were casted on this show were the Drew McIntyre, Michael Behling and Oliver Tree just to name a few. Having amassed a whopping 500 hours + of time in the Directors chair, Justin currently has left CrossCheck studios and has now started his own production company called "Alethia Pictures" where he is continuing to pursue his passion of compelling story telling via the director chair. [11]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Director/Producer". Justin Burbage. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
- ↑ Gardner, Chris (2021-02-23). "Social Media Star Josh Richards Partners With Mark Wahlberg's Unrealistic Ideas to Form CrossCheck Studios". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
- ↑ Nicki Minaj - The Night Is Still Young, retrieved 2024-02-22
- ↑ Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ Official Introduction, retrieved 2024-02-22
- ↑ Tiësto ft. Aloe Blacc & Stargate - Carry You Home (Official Video), retrieved 2024-02-22
- ↑ "Baron Brown Studio | acting techniques los angelesBaron Brown Studio". 2019-03-18. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
- ↑ "50 Minutes to Save the World". robertistok.com. 2019-07-03. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
- ↑ Sykes, Timothy (2019-07-12). "50 Minutes to Save the World". Timothy Sykes. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
- ↑ "Save the Reef". savethereef.org. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
- ↑ Chan, J. Clara (2022-06-23). "Josh Richards to Create and Produce TV Shows for Amazon Studios Under First-Look Deal". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
- ↑ "Josh Richards will 'Read The Room' in upcoming sketch comedy series". Tubefilter. 2023-10-26. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
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