Victor Buhler has directed and produced award-winning fiction and documentary films.
His most recent documentary feature film, entitled
Africa10, tells the story of how football is transforming Africa. The film features many legendary African footballers, from Emmanuel Adebayor to Roger Milla, and famous African leaders such as Kofi Annan and Desmond Tutu. The film was shot in eight separate African countries and will be released in September 2010 (
www.africa10.com)
Victor was Consulting Producer on the feature documentary
Countdown to Zero, directed by Lucy Walker. The film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival 2010.
Victor directed and produce the feature documentary
Rikers High, abut the high school for teens incarcerated in Rikers Island jail. This film was nominated for an Emmy in 2006 and won the 'NY Loves Film' Award for Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film was a co-production of Showtime and France 2.
Martin Scorsese executive produced Victor's fiction short
Chaperone which was nominated for a Student Academy Award. The film screened on HBO in the States and received numerous awards worldwide, including at the AFI Festival in Los Angeles.
Victor has directed drama programming for the BBC and for Channel 4. His 2009 half-hour drama for Channel 4,
Foreign John, debuted at the Edinburgh Film Festival. He directed six episodes of the BBC Wales series
Belonging which won a BAFTA Cymru for Best Dramatic Series.
Victor has shot documentaries for numerous networks including: HBO, Showtime, The Discovery Channel, Channel 4, TLC, MSNBC, AMC and MTV.
Doug Liman, director of
The Bourne Identity, executive produced a television drama that Victor wrote and directed for Fox Television.
Victor shot a series of films for The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, reporting on their charitable work to combat malaria in Africa.
Recently he won a grant from the United States Institute of Peace to complete a film about peace negotiators in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Victor, from London, studied and later taught filmmaking at Harvard University in the States and at New York University's Tisch Graduate Film School, where his teachers included Ross McElwee and Spike Lee.