Tim Burstall

**Timothy Burstall** AM (20 Afrilu 1927 – 19 Afrilu 2004) daraktan fina-finai ne na Ingila, marubuci kuma furodusa, wanda aka fi sani da fim ɗin Australiya mai suna *Alvin Purple* (1973) da kuma fim ɗin *Alvin Rides Again* (1974).

Fina-finan Burstall sun nuna fitowar farko ta fitattun jaruman 'yan wasan kwaikwayo na Australiya da dama, ciki har da Jack Thompson, Bruce Spence, Jacki Weaver, *Graeme* Blundell, John Waters da Judy Davis.

Da yake magana jim kaɗan bayan mutuwar Burstall, David Williamson ya ce Burstall "ba zai iya jure wa rashin masana'antar fina-finai ta Australiya ba. "Ya ƙuduri aniyar yin wani abu game da hakan kuma yana da kuzari da ruhi don yin hakan. (Shi) mutum ne mai matuƙar muhimmanci a al'adu: mai hankali sosai, mai karatu sosai, tare da ra'ayi mai taƙaice kuma wanda galibi yake da ce-ce-ku-ce a kan komai." 

## Rayuwa
An haifi Burstall a Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, Ingila a watan Afrilun 1927. Iyalinsa sun zo Ostiraliya a shekarar 1937 bayan mahaifinsa ya zama farfesa a fannin injiniya a Jami'ar Melbourne. Yana halartar Geelong Grammar, Burstall ya koyar da shi ta hanyar masanin tarihi Manning Clark. Lokacin da iyayensa suka dawo Ingila bayan Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu, ya ci gaba da zama a Ostiraliya. Ya kammala karatun digiri na farko a fannin fasaha tare da girmamawa a Tarihi daga Jami'ar Melbourne a shekarar 1946, inda ya zauna a Kwalejin Queen's. Ya haɗu da Betty, wacce ya aura, a jami'ar. Sun gina gidan bulo mai laka a Eltham, Victoria. Gidan dangin daga 1967-2013 yana da lamba 148 Nicholson Street, Fitzroy (an sayar, 2013). Daga baya ya halarci Jami'ar Sydney da Jami'ar California, Los Angeles .

Da farko Burstall yana son zama marubuci kuma yana tunanin cewa idan yana aiki a fim, hakan zai iya zama hanyar komawa ga rubutu.  Ya tafi aiki a Laburaren Fina-finai na Ƙasa da nufin samun aiki a Sashen Fina-finai na Commonwealth a matsayin marubucin rubutun. Ya yi aiki a kan jerin shirye-shiryen fina-finai, gyara da rubutu ga Sashen Antarctica. Ya fara sha'awar yin fina-finai bayan ya kalli fim ɗin Faransa na *White Mane* na 1953 a bikin Fina-finai na Ƙasa da Ƙasa na Melbourne.

Shi da Patrick Ryan sun kafa Eltham Films a shekarar 1959. 

A watan Fabrairun 2012, Melbourne University Press ta buga sassan mujallu na Burstall daga 1953–1955, a ƙarƙashin taken *Memoirs of a Young Bastard.*    

## Farkon aikina
Fim ɗin Burstall na farko shi ne gajeren fim mai launin baƙi da fari, *The Prize.* Tare da ɗaukar hoto na Gérard Vandenberg, *The Prize* ta lashe *tagulla* a bikin fina-finai na Venice na 1960. 'Ya'yan Burstall maza biyu sun taka rawar gani.

Tare da aiki tare da David Bilcock, Dusan Marek, Giorgio Mangiamele, Gérard Vandenburg, Alan Harkness da mawaki George Dreyfus, Eltham Films sun yi gajerun batutuwa da yawa, ciki har da shirye-shiryen fina-finai masu kayatarwa kan zane-zane na Australiya, da kuma shirin 'yar tsana na yara na farko Sebastian the Fox. Na ƙarshe an fara nuna shi a ABC a 1962-63, kuma Burstall daga baya ya bayyana halin taken a matsayin "ɗaya daga cikin jaruman Oz na farko". [1]

Daga 1965 zuwa 67 Burstall yana Amurka a wani taron Harkness Fellowship. Ya yi karatun rubutun rubutu tare da Paddy Chayefsky, ya jagoranci tare da Martin Ritt, sannan ya yi aiki tare da Lee Strasberg da kuma Actors Studio a New York. 

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