Victor Buhler (
www.victorbuhler.net) has written, directed and produced award-winning dramas and documentary films. He is the director of the comedy drama series
Sirens, starring Rhys Thomas, Kayvan Novak, Richard Madden, and Amy Beth Hayes. Victor established the look of the programme and directed the opening two episodes. The series, produced by Daybreak Pictures, debuted on Channel 4 in 2011.
Victor's most recent documentary feature, entitled
The Beautiful Game, premieres in 2012 and reveals how football is much more than a sport across Africa. The film features many of the most famous African footballers - from Emmanuel Adebayor to Roger Milla - and famous African Nobel Laureates Kofi Annan, F.W. deKlerk and Desmond Tutu. Please visit
www.beautifulgamefilm.com A Whole Lott More, a feature documentary, also debuts in 2012 and tells the story of Lott Industries, a company outside of Detroit that employs 1200 people with developmental disabilities. For years the company successfully assembled car parts but the collapse of the auto industry has pushed them to the brink. The film has received a grant from the Sundance Film Festival and will air on More4 in the UK. Its website is
www.awholelottmore.comVictor directed and produced the feature documentary
Rikers High, about 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. A co-production of Showtime and France 2.
Victor's 2009 half-hour drama for Channel 4,
Foreign John, part of the
Coming Up series, debuted at the Edinburgh Film Festival. Victor also directed six episodes of the Welsh BAFTA-winning drama
Belonging.
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 Channel 4 in the UK and received numerous awards worldwide, including at the AFI Festival in Los Angeles.
In the US, Vicor has shot programmes 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, from London, studied and later taught filmmaking at Harvard University in the States and at New York University's Tisch Graduate Film School. Please visits
www.victorbuhler.net for more information.
