He has been described as the most prolific filmmaker in the state of Alabama by Sidewalk Film Festival programmer Rachel Morgan, and his faux trailer for a lost installment of the Halloween movie franchise has screened in front of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre and won the "Best Fake Trailer" award at the 2014 LOST Episode Fest in Toronto. His first feature film, the VHS inspired horror/comedy Feast of the Vampires, won the Audience Choice Award for Best Film at an Athens, AL. film festival in 2009. Anathema Arienette, one of three feature films Burleson is currently adding finishing touches to, is set to premiere at the 17th annual Sidewalk Film Festival in August of 2015.