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 and produced two regional commercials for the Schwarzenegger Campaign and The Nicaraguan Hurricane Felix relief fund. He has directed two Documentaries on the Northern Irish peace process for his company Damascus Films, which are currently in post-production. He directed & produced a concert DVD with Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson, shot by Academy Award winning Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC. He directed 2nd Unit on 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 full-length feature documentary on the best-selling book, The White Man’s Burden by William Easterly. His work in Africa includes: Six trips to the dark continent into Uganda, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Madacascar, Kenya, Malawi and Ghana. a promotional film for Children of the Nations who care for orphans in Lilongwe, Malawi Africa and a documentary short on internally displaced people in Northern Uganda, which he shot in Lira, Uganda. In Ghana he documented a humanitarian mission covering the southern part of the country. He recently returned from the DRCongo, Sudan and Uganda where he directed a documentary on Laurent Nkunda, The rebel General in Northeast Congo.

Busby recently returned from China where he co-directed a documentary on Traditional Chinese Medicine and it’s effects on stroke patients which is in post-poduction. 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 Unburdened, a direct, sustainable development program which launches in 2009.