Peter Burns
Writer-Producer-Director
A creative strategist, filmmaker, and producer whose career spans more than twenty years of brand development, audience building, and content creation.
Combining a marketer's understanding of audience behavior with a filmmaker's passion for story, Peter specializes in developing high-concept projects with strong commercial potential.
Having studied under Academy Award-winning producer Saul Zaentz, Peter has spent years refining projects across film and episodic formats while building a reputation for connecting creative vision with practical execution. His background in branding, development, and strategic positioning allows him to identify opportunities that help projects stand out in an increasingly competitive marketplace.
Peter provides development leadership, strategic guidance, and market insight, helping shepherd projects from concept to screen.
I am a Filmmaker with unique independent vision, but also highly collaborative in order to achieve the best possible outcomes. Top shelf collaborators and partners are essential.
I combine creative, strategic and intuitive strengths with a passion for classic and untapped story elements to connect with evolving contemporary audiences in new ways. I’m constantly gathering and polishing gems of all sorts to that end. I develop a lot of content solo, and in partnership.
I believe that a well-crafted story can be made to intersect with a market’s targeted audience at the right time, and become very popular.
I believe that the art defines the business, and the business supports the art. Proven standards work, and innovation has its place here.
I have been described as an “edgy and efficient Writer, a generous Actor’s Director and a compassionate but strict, no-nonsense Producer”.
In all of these disciplines, I enjoy constructing a simple yet sturdy framework for the Spirit of Art and Creativity to flow forth from all Departments such that it provides solutions, and sometimes real break-through “aha” moments. Establishing and holding this kind of space can be considered brass tacks, but it can also be like a Shamanic act.