Noah Buschel

{{short description|American film director and screenwriter|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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|birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

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Noah Buschel (born 1978){{cite magazine| url = http://www.indiewire.com/2009/01/noah-buschel-the-missing-person-trusting-your-instincts-and-avoiding-indie-cliches-70956/| title=Noah Buschel, 'The Missing Person': Trusting Your Instincts and Avoiding Indie Cliche|magazine= Indiewire|date= January 9, 2009 | accessdate= July 29, 2016|archivedate= July 29, 2016| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160729194253/http://www.indiewire.com/2009/01/noah-buschel-the-missing-person-trusting-your-instincts-and-avoiding-indie-cliches-70956/| url-status=live|quote=I was born in 1978 in Philadelphia. I grew up in Greenwich Village.}} is an American film director and screenwriter.

Early life

Buschel was born in Philadelphia and grew up in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.{{cite web| url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/14/att-tribeca-film-festival_n_5093124.html |title=Tribeca Film Festival 2014: A Picture Of New York City In 10 Films| work=The Huffington Post|date= April 14, 2014| archivedate= December 8, 2015| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20151208114230/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/14/att-tribeca-film-festival_n_5093124.html| url-status=live}}

Career

Buschel's first film, Bringing Rain, premiered at the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival.{{cite web|first= Stephen|last= Reilly|url= http://indienyc.com/2014-tribeca-film-festival-filmmaker-profile-noah-buschel-writerdirector-glass-chin/|title= 2014 Tribeca Film Festival Filmmaker Profile: Noah Buschel (Writer/Director – 'Glass Chin')|publisher= IndieNYC.com|date= April 12, 2014|accessdate= July 29, 2016|archivedate= July 29, 2016|archiveurl= https://archive.today/20160729195012/http://indienyc.com/2014-tribeca-film-festival-filmmaker-profile-noah-buschel-writerdirector-glass-chin/|url-status= live}} His second film, Neal Cassady, was distributed by IFC. His third, The Missing Person, premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2009/film/markets-festivals/the-missing-person-1200473865/| title=Review: 'The Missing Person'|first=Todd |last=McCarthy|work=Variety|date=February 4, 2009|accessdate= July 31, 2016|quote=Reviewed at Sundance Film Festival (Spectrum)|archivedate=July 31, 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160731214920/http://variety.com/2009/film/markets-festivals/the-missing-person-1200473865/|url-status=live}} and was distributed theatrically by Strand Releasing. It earned Buschel a 2009 Gotham Awards nomination for Breakthrough Director.{{cite web| url= http://theeditcenter.com/news/2015/7/gotham-award-nomination-and-theatrical-release-for-class-film | title=Gotham Award Nomination and Theatrical Release for Class Film | date= October 20, 2009|publisher=The Edit Center|accessdate=July 31, 2016|archivedate=July 31, 2016|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20160731220657/http://theeditcenter.com/news/2015/7/gotham-award-nomination-and-theatrical-release-for-class-film | url-status=live}} He has collaborated with cinematographer Ryan Samul on four movies: The Missing Person, Sparrows Dance, Glass Chin and The Phenom. Matt Prigge of Metro New York wrote that, "Noah Buschel might be one of indies' most interesting filmmakers, all the more so because he doesn't belong to any easily promotable group or even genre."{{cite news|first=Matt|last=Prigge|url=http://www.metro.us/entertainment/the-phenom-is-an-unusually-stripped-down-indie-about-baseball/zsJpfy---mWpO8AukR5Ws/ |title='The Phenom' is an unusually stripped-down indie about baseball|newspaper=Metro New York|date=June 24, 2016|archivedate=August 29, 2018|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20180829125148/https://www.metro.us/entertainment/the-phenom-is-an-unusually-stripped-down-indie-about-baseball/zsJpfy---mWpO8AukR5Ws|url-status=live}}

Buschel was a contributing editor for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review and an essayist for Filmmaker Magazine. His topics have included gun violence in films.{{cite magazine| url=https://filmmakermagazine.com/101705-catching-bullets-in-the-rye-on-movies-dreams-propaganda-and-trump/|title=Catching Bullets in the Rye|first=Noah|last=Buschel|date= February 20, 2017|magazine=Filmmaker|archivedate=August 12, 2018|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20180812052552/https://filmmakermagazine.com/101705-catching-bullets-in-the-rye-on-movies-dreams-propaganda-and-trump/|url-status=live}}

Filmography

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style="text-align:center;"\| 2003 \| style="text-align:left;"\| Bringing Rain \| style="text-align:left;"\| Writer, director \| style="text-align:left;"\| Premiered at Tribeca Film Festival
style="text-align:center;"\| 2007 \| style="text-align:left;"\| Neal Cassady \| style="text-align:left;"\| Writer, director \| style="text-align:left;"\| Distributed by IFC
style="text-align:center;"\| 2009 \| style="text-align:left;"\| The Missing Person \| style="text-align:left;"\| Writer, director \| style="text-align:left;"\| Premiered at Sundance Film Festival and distributed by Strand Releasing
style="text-align:center;"\| 2013 \| style="text-align:left;"\| Sparrows Dance \| style="text-align:left;"\| Writer, director \| style="text-align:left;"\| Won Best Narrative Feature at the 2012 Austin Film Festival{{cite news\| first=Lorraine\|last= Cwelich\| url = http://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/news/a23582/paul-sparks-sparrows-dance/ \|title=Boardwalk Empire's Paul Sparks on Jazz, Scorsese, and 'Sparrows Dance' \| work=Elle\| date=August 23, 2013\| accessdate= July 29, 2016\|archivedate=March 4, 2016\| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304003208/http://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/news/a23582/paul-sparks-sparrows-dance/\| url-status=live}}
style="text-align:center;"\| 2014 \| style="text-align:left;"\| Glass Chin \| style="text-align:left;"\| Writer, director \| style="text-align:left;"\| Distributed by Entertainment One
style="text-align:center;"\| 2015 \| style="text-align:left;"\| The Phenom \| style="text-align:left;"\| Writer, director \| style="text-align:left;"\| Distributed by RLJ Entertainment
style="text-align:center;"\| 2020 \| style="text-align:left;"\| The Man in the Woods \| style="text-align:left;"\| Writer, director \| style="text-align:left;"\| Starring Marin Ireland and William Jackson Harper

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style="text-align:center;"| 2003

| style="text-align:left;"| Bringing Rain