OSCAR BUCHER
Award-winning no limits producer
offering full-service creative production
from script to screen
CREATIVE REEL
A supercut of unique and engaging projects
Montage of film work produced and/or directed for Evolve Media Productions, OB3 Studios, Seven Stories Institute and others.
email: oscar@ob3.tv
OSCAR BUCHER
A NO-LIMITS CREATIVE PRODUCER
We help Artists and Enterprise Clients tell their story through Video, Photo, Graphic Design and Inspired Strategy.
We create a unique team for every client's needs, assembling best-in-class writers, filmmakers, photographers, and communications strategists to take your projects from creative development through post-production and final launch. We have created work for the world’s top business leaders including Genentech, Ansys, PayPal, Zynga, Smartex, Persistent Systems, and many others and have produced strategic communications linked with visual campaigns, training videos, commercials, television shows, audiobooks, and documentaries.
We specialize in acutely understanding a project’s storytelling needs and delivering an inventive narrative with visual punch. We work with you to understand your company's culture and create inspired internal communications as well as engaging external branding for public delivery.
Let’s work together and make something amazing.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
• Produced & Directed works for Evolve Media, creating video campaigns for top tech firms
• Produced & Directed feature documentary, Nelson Algren Live, starring Willem Dafoe
• Produced & Directed Waiting for a Train: The Toshio Hirano Story , which screened in over 50 international festivals, as well as on PBS, and won 11 festival awards
• Directed Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett in a documentary and commercial
• Directed/Edited TV series, Without a Scalpel, streaming on Amazon.
• Co-Producer on the CGI steampunk film Spirit Machine
• Edited a series about Big Data and IoT for Persistent Systems
• Work with screenwriter Barry Gifford, author of the David Lynch films Wild at Heart and Lost Highway, on numerous scripts currently in development
FEATURED WORK
Waiting for a Train: The Toshio Hirano Story
Award-winning Documentary
A Japanese musician's lifelong love of bluegrass takes him on a mission of discovery into the heartland of America.
Winner of 10 Awards, screened in over 50 festivals and on PBS's Independent Lens.
"Charming and inspirational. Really well made...a beautiful thing to see."
-- Willem Dafoe
Some of our most creative projects
Nelson Algren Live
Starring Willem Dafoe
"A complete and completely entertaining portrait of a great American writer. Loved it!”
— Gus Van Sant
“A fabulous introduction for a new generation to this hippest of Chicago writers.”
— San Francisco Chronicle
Willem Dafoe and Barry Gifford star in this dramatic reading about the life and work of Nelson Algren, the evocative novelist who wrote about gritty post-war Chicago from the inside—the city, the corruption, the crime and the characters lost among its neon wilderness. Official Selection in the 2018 Santa Barbara Film Festival.
Without a Scalpel
Engaging documentary TV Series
This new TV series follows patients and their doctors through ground-breaking procedures that heal and transform their lives. Edited and co-directed. Produced by Evolve Media and The Interventional Initiative. Streaming on Amazon.
PayPal
Customer case study: Sway boutique and PayPal Here
I directed a series for Evolve Media and PayPal, which included this trip to Sway boutique,
to show how they use PayPal to make mobile payment a breeze.
Kirk Hammett - Nosferatu Guitar
Snake in the Water
Unique Music Video starring Lia Rose
A lively and dark alt-country fairytale, shot on location in the backwoods of Cazadero.
Directed by Oscar Bucher for Evolve Media Production.
Startup Commercial: Pantry
Directed and Produced this commercial with Evolve Media to help Pantry Retail
introduce their innovative concept of in-house grab and go kiosks.
Too Much Horror Business
The Kirk Hammett Collection Documentary
Documentary about Metallica Guitarist Kirk Hammett’s new book: "Too Much Horror Business",
which details his massive and unique collection of horror movie memorabilia.
When Kirk Hammett of Metallica approached us about making a commercial for his ESP Nosferatu guitar, we were thrilled at the idea of capturing his epic jams and cutting them into a scene with F. W. Murnau’s 1922 horror masterpiece. It was not without it’s challenges: shooting in widescreen 4K color and cutting together with 4:3 vintage black & white footage, faking eye-lines to create a relationship, matching lighting and more - but we’re thrilled how it came out.
The sound you hear is his actual improvised jam on set - no music was added in post. He’s just that good. And as for the guitar - they sold out the day the video was released.
Metallica Gutarist Unveals His Vampire Guitar
