Douglas Busby's vast experience in film and television has spanned almost two decades. He has over 80 film & television productions to his credit, having worked as a Director, Producer, Assistant Director, Camera Operator, Camera Assistant, and Actor, for such companies as Universal Pictures, Warner Brothers, Paramount Pictures, and Sony Entertainment. In addition he has been a camera operator & camera assistant on more than 50 music videos and commercials.Busby studied at Vancouver Film School, New York University and the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre where he learned film directing, screenwriting and acting. He is a member of the International Cinematographers Guild, The Screen Actors Guild, International Documentary Association and the Society of Operating Cameramen.Busby has directed two Documentaries on the Northern Irish peace process for his company Damascus Films, which are currently in post-production. For these documentaries he interviewed Senator George Mitchell, Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams, Rev Ian Paisley, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate John Hume, Martin McGuinness, Former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and Father Alec Reid (along with 50 other politicians, paramilitaries, University professors and clergymen.) He directed & produced a concert DVD with Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson, shot by Academy Award winning Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC. He is currently adapting The Shankill Butchers for the screen in collaboration with best-selling author Martin Dillon. He directed a segment of a documentary in Burma on Aung Sun Suu Kyi for Jack Healey, The Human Rights Action Center, and The US Campaign for Burma.Currently in pre-production: A feature film based on the award winning play, The Pagans, which will be shot on-location in Ireland. Currently in production: a documentary on cancer for Harvard Medical School, The National Institute of Health & National Cancer Institute. Currently in post-production: a promotional film for Children of the Nations who care for orphans in Africa and a documentary on internally displaced people in Northern Uganda, which he shot in Lilongwe, Malawi and Lira, Uganda.Busby has been named head of rock production for the Live Concert Channel. He is working with Dr. Mark Jude Tramo of Harvard's Institute of Music & Brain science to cinematically and scientifically translate the effects of music on the mind, body & emotions.Douglas Busby is founder of FilmAnthropy, an entertainment company dedicated to radical, transparent, philanthropic endeavors throughout the world, which will inaugurate Dignity for Africa, a direct, sustainable development program which launches in 2007
