Caleb Burdeau is a multidisciplinary filmmaker, equally proficient working as a Director, Cinematographer or in Post-Production. Caleb began his career as a cinematographer and soon became adept at all aspects of post-production including coloring, sound design, and vfx. He quickly moved on to directing commercials and music videos and founded the production company Swing the Hammer Films in 2012. In 2013 Caleb worked as a cinematographer at film.factory Sarajevo under the guidance of legendary Hungarian director Béla Tarr. Caleb’s first feature film Nasumice (Adrift) premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival in 2018 and was shown in festivals all over the world, winning best feature at the 2019 Tripoli Film Festival. As Leaves Turned Brown, his first feature documentary is currently in pre-production. His second narrative feature film Interrata is currently in development. Caleb grew up traveling continuously between the northern and southern hemispheres, finally settling in Italy with his father and two brothers in 1984, when he was 15. Before turning to film making in 2009, Caleb had worked as a motorcycle courier, a printer, an olive farmer, a carpenter and a photographer, in both Europe and the United States. He has been based in the Puglia region of southern Italy for over twenty years..
Nasumice (Adrift)
Nasumice began it's life when Bob Carter, a dear family friend, told Caleb a story about his experiences traveling in the south of Italy in the 1970's. Several years later Bob and Caleb came together in Chicago to brainstorm ways to turn Bob's story into a feature film. Out of those early sessions a first draft of the script, for a then titled "Rodolfo", was born. Early attempts at finding funding proved futile and the project was put aside. A couple of years later, when Caleb was working at Bela Tarr's "film.factory" in Sarajevo, he met Moamer Kasumovic and the idea of making a revised version of the film with Moamer in the lead role took root. Caleb set about rewriting the story from a Bosnian refugee's perspective and the story as told now found it's way onto the page. Nasumice was in large part funded through the crowd-sourcing platform Kickstarter. Filmed on location in Venice, Rome, and the countryside of Puglia, the minimal crew used creative and effective means to produce a visually stunning film despite the modest budget available. The world premiere for Nasumice took place at the 2018 Sarajevo Film festival.