Directors Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal

Eleanor Burke is a writer, director and cinematographer whose work broadly explores the experience of the outsider in society. Following her undergraduate degree at Cambridge University, Eleanor attended New York University’s prestigious film school where she was selected to receive a fellowship award for excellence from director Ang Lee. Eleanor has received several accolades for screenwriting, including an award from the 2006 First Run Film for the short film RUTH & MAGGIE, and the 2006 Sloan Foundation Award for her screenplay KADYA. Eleanor has served as cinematographer on a wide range of narrative and documentary films.

Ron Eyal is a New York-based independent filmmaker. A recent graduate of the directing program at NYU, Ron has made a number of short narrative and documentary films, including THE POPE’S FACE, which won the 2007 Audience Choice Award at the Millbrook International 3-minute Film Festival and RUTH & MAGGIE, which won a screenwriting award at the First Run Film Festival and premiered at the 2006 Slamdance Film Festival. Ron uses actor-centric methods and the influence of his documentary experience to create a fresh, raw style of dramatic filmmaking.

Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal were recently featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. STRANGER THINGS marks their feature film debut.