Noel Burch

Noël Burch is a filmmaker, film theorist, and author born in San Francisco in 1932 who has lived in France since 1951. He graduated from the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques in 1954 and later co-founded and directed the Institut de Formation Cinématographique in Paris. Burch has directed more than 20 films, primarily documentaries, and taught film studies at universities, including the University of Lille, where he became professor emeritus.

Burch co-authored Teacher Effectiveness Training with Dr. Thomas Gordon and worked with Gordon Training International in the 1970s. His other published works include Theory of Film Practice (1973), To the Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in Japanese Cinema (1979), and Life to Those Shadows (1990).