Mr. Chad D. Burris

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  Chad D. Burris
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  Chad Burris is a member of the Chickasaw Nation and is a native of Oklahoma. Burris became Of Counsel to the law firm of Doerner, Saunders, Daniel, and Anderson in 2008 as an Of-Counsel attorney in its Indian Law section.
  
  Burris is a graduate of the University of Tulsa Law School, where he received his J.D. with an emphasis in Indian Law. He devoted much of his time in law school toward developing programs that would attract, through federal economic development incentives, film production to Indian Country. Since law school he has represented clients throughout Indian Country on a myriad of issues.
  
  Mr. Burris also has experience in the practice of Entertainment Law, both as an attorney and a producer of motion pictures. Burris has worked as legal counsel on several feature film projects and music ventures, as well as representation of individual artists. He has also taken on the role of producer in several projects, assuming the responsibility of identifying and negotiating large capital investments and managing the business of the film.
  
  Burris is the owner of the Oklahoma based Indion Entertainment Group (IEG). IEG facilitates financing and production for motion picture projects shooting in Oklahoma. The company utilizes Oklahoma state tax incentives to encourage local investment in film projects. Burris realized the value of local incentives for film production and set out to construct a business model that would accommodate both in Oklahoma.
  
  Burris is a member of Sundance Institute's Native Fellows program and is on the advisory board of the Oklahoma State Film and Music Commission. He serves as a Creative Ambassador for the State of Oklahoma through it's Creativity Initiative and is an advisory director for a local non-profit film festival. Burris, who speaks frequently on panels and conferences on film and Entertainment law, also works closely with local and state groups to encourage support of the arts in Oklahoma.
  
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  Published on: 4/23/2008    Last Visited: 8/8/2008  

  That's what happened to Chad Burris.
  
  He was focusing on a career in the entertainment industry Los Angeles when he needed some legal help.
  
  Burris saw how an attorney represented him and realized the legal profession would be more in line with his own skill set and felt being a lawyer was something he really would enjoy.
  
  Returning to Oklahoma, he attended the University of Tulsa College of Law, graduating in 2005.
  
  He chose the school because of the Indian Law and Entertainment Law courses — and he also liked Tulsa.
  
  The new associate at the Doerner, Saunders, Daniel and Anderson Law Firm, will be realizing more of his goal as he develops Indian and Entertainment law practices.
  
  He is no stranger to Indian law because he was an associate with Legal Advocates for Indian Country in Owasso.
  
  Burris' Indian law practice generally will be more about transactional law, helping tribe clients develop businesses beyond gaming tables.
  
  Transactional law can be any number of challenges including new business practices from within the tribe or in conjunction with outside firms looking to work with tribes, he said. ‘‘I can see business structure and models to compliment those plans."
  
  Describing himself as a ‘‘people person," Burris feels that he has skill sets to have well-rounded practice in both areas since creative and logical thinking is demanded.
  
  ‘‘I also think outside the box," he added.
  
  Even though he was studying to be an attorney, the member of the Chickasaw nation and Oklahoman didn't give up his attraction to the entertainment industry and pursued a filmmaking effort even while in law school.
  
  Getting involved in the entertainment world started long before law school.
  
  ‘‘I was trying to ‘‘break in" to the entertainment industry when I went to California by producing a series of short films," Burris explained.They were student films and there was no particular single subject focus.It just depended upon the dictates of the funding source.
  
  Burris delayed his legal career after graduation in 2005 to complete work on a film project developed through his film company, the Indian Entertainment Group.He also had his own private law practice.
  
  When he started with the Indian Law Firm, he had a basic practice of law that allowed him to virtually work in every type of Indian law.

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  Published on: 10/23/2006    Last Visited: 8/18/2007  

  The topics will include film musical composition, moderated by well-known film composer Brent Michael Davids, as well as legality issues in the film industry moderated by Richard Trudell, Executive Director of the American Indian Resource Institute, joined by Chad Burris, attorney/producer and owner of Indion Entertainment Group, and Harris Tulchin attorney/producer and leading partner of International Entertainment, Multimedia & Intellectual Property Law & Business NetworkÔ.
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  "Entertainment Law" moderated by Richard Trudell, executive director of American Indian Resource Institute with Chad Burris, attorney/producer and owner of Indion Entertainment Group, and Harris Tulchin, attorney/producer and leading partner of International Entertainment, Multimedia & Intellectual Property Law & Business NetworkÔ.
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  Chad Burris
  
  Chad Burris belongs to the Chickasaw Nation and is a native of Oklahoma.He produced the short film Goodnight Irene which screened at the Sundance Film Festival, Berlin, Tribeca, Los Angeles Film Festival, and Aspen Short Fest, as well as many other notable festivals around the world.Chad produced the feature length film, Four Sheets to the Wind by writer/director Sterlin Harjo.
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  Chad is also producing a feature from award winning filmmaker Blackhorse Lowe that is set to shoot in the winter of 2006-2007.The feature, titled The Left Handed Path, was a participant in the 2006 Sundance writers lab.
  
  Chad is a graduate of the University of Tulsa Law School, where he received his J.D. with an emphasis in Indian Law.Chad has spent his time in law school developing programs that would attract film production to Indian country.
  
  Chad is co-owner of the production company, Indion Film, which facilitates financing and production for projects to shoot in Oklahoma and also produces its own projects for Oklahoma.Chad is also co-owner of 46 Red, a commercial and video production company.
  
  Chad is the president of the Oklahoma Territory Film Council and serves as a director for the non-profit organization Yuwita, whose aim is to develop and support media initiatives to increase cultural tolerance and understanding, and to defend equality.

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  Published on: 11/13/2006    Last Visited: 8/18/2007  

  The topics included "Composing Music for Film", moderated by well-known film composer Brent Michael Davids, and "Entertainment Law", moderated by Richard Trudell, Executive Director of the American Indian Law Resource Institute, joined by Chad Burris, attorney/producer and owner of Indion Entertainment Group, and Harris Tulchin, attorney/producer and leading partner of International Entertainment, Multimedia & Intellectual Property Law & Business Network.

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  Published on: 10/23/2006    Last Visited: 8/18/2007  

  Instructors: Chad Burris, attorney/producer and owner of Indion Entertainment Group, and Harris Tulchin, attorney/producer, and leading partner of International Entertainment, Multimedia & Intellectual Property Law & Business NetworkÔ.
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  The topics will include Composing Music for Film, moderated by well-known film composer Brett Michael Davids and Entertainment Law, moderated by Richard Trudell, executive director of the American Indian Resource Institute, and led by Chad Burris and Harris Tulchin.

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  Published on: 1/1/2006    Last Visited: 8/18/2007  

  Moderators: Richard Trudell, Chad Burris, Harris E. Tulchin, and Annie Fraziér Henry
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  Chad BurrisChad Burris belongs to the Chickasaw Nation and is a native of Oklahoma.He produced the short film Goodnight Irene which screened at the Sundance Film Festival, Berlin, Tribeca, Los Angeles Film Fest, Aspen Short Fest and many other notable festivals around the world.Chad produced the feature length film, Four Sheets to the Wind by writer/director Sterlin Harjo.
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  Chad is also producing a feature from award winning filmmaker Blackhorse Lowe that is set to shoot in the winter of 2006-2007.The feature, titled The Left Handed Path, was a participant in the 2006 Sundance writers lab.
  
  Chad is a graduate of the University of Tulsa Law School, where he received his J.D. with an emphasis in Indian Law.Chad has spent his time in law school developing programs that would attract film production to Indian country.
  
  Chad is co-owner of the production company, Indion Film, which facilitates financing and production for projects to shoot in Oklahoma and also produces it's own projects for Oklahoma.Chad is also co-owner of 46 Red, a commercial and video production company.
  
  Chad is the president of the Oklahoma Territory Film Council and serves as a director for the non-profit organization Yuwita, whose aim is to develop and support media initiatives to increase cultural tolerance and understanding, and to defend equality.

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  Published on: 9/5/2007    Last Visited: 9/5/2007  

  The City of Lawton and the Lawton Arts & Humanities Council is very pleased to announce that registration is now open for workshop, "Entertainment Law for Filmmakers" with Chad Burris, Attorney and Award-Winning Producer.

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  Published on: 4/24/2007    Last Visited: 4/24/2007  

  Producer Chad Burris has been awarded the Mark Silverman Fellowship for new producers for writer/director Blackhorse Lowe's "The Left-Handed Path," a 2006 Sundance Screenwriters Lab project.Burris will receive a $5,000 pre-production grant and a year of mentorship from independent producers Meg LeFauve and Ed Saxon.

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  Published on: 2/21/2007    Last Visited: 3/21/2007  

  The Sundance Institute recently awarded Oklahoma producer Chad Burris with the Mark Silverman Fellowship for New Producers at a luncheon in Park City, Utah.
  
  Burris, a partner of Tulsa-based Indion Entertainment Group, recently produced Four Sheets to the Wind, which was in competition at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
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  Burris and Harjo previously collaborated on Goodnight Irene, a short film set in an Oklahoma Native American health clinic.Irene screened at Sundance, Berlin, Tribeca, Los Angeles and Aspen Short Film Festivals in 2006.The pair is currently developing Harjo's second feature, Before the Beast Returns, which won Best Screenplay at Tribeca All Access 2006.
  
  Under the Silverman Fellowship, Burris will receive a cash grant of $5,000 for pre-production expenses for his upcoming feature titled The Left Handed Path, along with the yearlong guidance and support of five industry mentors of his choice from the Sundance Advisory Committee.
  
  The committee will offer advice and counsel to Burris as the film progresses through various stages of production.
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  Chad Burris belongs to the Chickasaw Nation and is a graduate of the University of Tulsa Law School, where he received his J.D. with an emphasis in Indian Law.Chad has spent his time in law school developing programs that would attract film production to Indian country.
  
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  Published on: 1/1/2007    Last Visited: 8/15/2007  

  Film producer Chad Burris (Chickasaw) has been awarded a Mark Silverman Fellowship for New Producers from the Sundance Institute for pre-production on his upcoming project The Left-Handed Path, written and to be directed by Blackhorse Lowe (Diné).
  
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