ASTRA BURKA

Astra Burka, born in Amsterdam, Holland, came to Canada with her parents at a young age. She was educated as an Architect and spent a dozen years working for established firms and in 1993 established her own architectural practice. In 1998, she built and lives in a flex house prototype consisting of two pink cubes and a red rectangle. Astra worked as a production designer and art director for over 40 feature films and movies-of-the-week. In 2004, she directed and produced her first short which premiered at the Moving Pictures Festival for Dance and Video, Toronto. Astra received an honorable mention: “ Using minimal resources, this film managed to recreate the innocence of sport from a very different time”. She is fascinated by untold family history and tries to tell the stories with a creative twist. Filmography 2009, Painting Daddy, 7 min, CTV Bravo!FACT ,Toronto, Canada 2008, Skate to Survive, 48 min, OMNI Television, Toronto, Canada 2006 Succo Pomodori, 3 min, Bravo!FACT, Toronto, Canada 2004 Innocence on Ice, 3 min, Bravo!FACT. Toronto, Canada