Jeff Burr: Jeff Burr. Director: Straight Into Darkness. Director/writer/producer Jeff Burr was born in 1961 in Aurora, Ohio. He grew up in Dalton, Georgia. Burr avidly watched low-budget independent movies at the local drive-in theater and made Super-8 pictures as a kid. Burr attended the University of Southern California for three years, where he met fellow student and aspiring filmmaker Kevin Meyer. The two of them dropped out of USC to complete...
