Burnett has twice been a guest of honor at the science, science fiction, and fantasy convention, CONvergence.
Burnett had a Jewish upbringing, and went to film school at the USC.[1]
Career
Burnett has worked in Hollywood since the summer of 1989, working his way up in the industry, producing diverse content, including online classes, physical media special features, television and motion pictures.[citation needed]
Producer
Beginning in the late 1990s, he began working as a "predator," a producer-editor, for television promotions. Beginning working with Star Wars fan film producer Kevin Rubio, Burnett created dozens of promos for the Kids WB programming block. Beginning in December 1999, he was hired full-time by NBC, creating over 100 spots for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. Dubbed "The Complete Olympics," it was the first time NBC broadcast the games over three platforms, NBC, MSNBC and CNBC. After the Olympics were aired, he continued on, creating spots for the 2000-2001 Prime Time season, including conceiving and even voicing the notorious XFL Cheerleader spots. In December 2000, he left NBC to join high-end content producers Kurtti-Pellerin, which exclusively created documentary special features for DVDs. Burnett produced extras for titles including The Walt Disney Company's The Fantasia Anthology and Snow White, and New Line Cinema's Extended Editions of Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. He directed and edited the feature-length Making of Tron, which was nominated for the DVD Premiere Award for Original Retrospective Documentary at the 2003 DVD Exclusive Awards.
Burnett made his feature writing and directing debut with the 1999 award-winning film Free Enterprise, starring Eric McCormack and William Shatner, which he also edited. Beginning in 2010, Burnett has directed and edited five episodes of the TV series Femme Fatales.[2][3][4]
Media critic
Burnett began his professional writing career as the "Critic at Large" for the Larry Flynt-published Sci-Fi Universe magazine in the mid-90s. He recently wrote an essay for a Blade Runner anthology, The Cyberpunk Nexus: Exploring the Blade Runner Universe, published by Sequart Organization, on July 10, 2018. He currently runs a successful YouTube channel and website both entitled The Burnettwork and presents his own show titled Robservations which provides in-depth online video analysis of new and classic TV and film.
Burnett is a regular contributor to the YouTube show of his friend and fellow filmmaker John Campea, titled The John Campea Show. In late March 2023, Meyer Burnett (jointly with Campea) announced that he would be stepping back from his involvement in The John Campea Show (whilst still making occasional appearances on it) to prioritise The Burtnettwork with Campea agreeing to sponsor certain content for an initial period of a few months on The Burnettwork and vice versa.[5] Burnett returned to the show weekdays in January 2025, albeit only present for the show's daily topic segments, after completing much of his work on the audio drama series True Noir: The Assassination of Anton Cermak.
