SANKOVA
SANKOVA
Television (Half-hour)
· Sci-fi · 29 pages
Five million years into the future, a group of friends living in a utopia after the collapse of the American Empire must destroy an android created by the fusion of Jay-Z's and Beyonce's minds.
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Xavier Burgin
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Los Angeles, California
Xavier Burgin is an Emmy-nominated director from USC Cinema. He directed AMC Networks' Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. He wrote the Lifetime film, Give Me Back My Daughter. He’s a staff writer on the Starz wrestling drama, Heels. He’s the dubbing director for Netflix’s sumo show, Sanctuary. He directed Adult Swim’s Juneteenth Holiday Specia...
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Xavier Burgin is an Emmy-nominated writer/director currently repped at CAA whose work has been covered in USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, and more. His documentary HORROR NOIRE, currently on Shudder, has a 100% certified fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. He is currently packaging a feature he also wrote and will direct. Growing up, he concurrently cultivated a passion for iconic films like FRIDAY, EVE’S BAYOU, and CANDYMAN alongside genre anime like DRAGON BALL Z, COWBOY BEBOP, & FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: BROTHERHOOD. This comes across in his work that displays an intersection of truthful representation of the African diaspora in the confines of sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and magical realism.
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