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(l-r) Georgia Tanner and Janice Burstein of Black Box Pictures

Janice Burstein, Executive Producer of Black Box Pictures, a new Atlanta-based production company, created a place where she can work in her own way and find "set harmony." Georgia Tanner, a creative and organized Director, teamed up with Burstein to open Black Box Pictures, and they complement one another perfectly, due in large part to the long time friendship between the two.

Burstein spent fifteen years as General Manager/Executive Producer for Toronto based Shooters Film Company. Burstein has worked on projects covering markets from Canada to Africa, and with budgets ranging from $50,000 to over $2 million. In Atlanta, she worked at First Light Films, where she spent four years producing for Tanner and others.

Tanner has a long history of work encompassing everything from wardrobe styling to art direction. Still photo shoots brought Tanner to stylizing where she realized she always saw movement in everything. Tanner then gravitated to commercials and one job led to another, culminating in directing. In the last four years, Tanner has directed spots for agencies all over the continent, including, Goldberg Moser O'Neill-San Francisco, Saatchi-New York, Bozell-Toronto, Chernoff Silver-Orlando, McCann-Erickson-Atlanta, Austin-Kelley-Atlanta, DDB Needham-Chicago, and Leo Burnett-Chicago. Her credits include new campaigns for Montgomery Ward and Maytag, and spots for Boston Market, Tide, Sears, TG Lee Milk, Georgia Pacific, Media One, and the Georgia Lottery.