Robert Buchar

Robert Buchar

Robert Buchar is an American filmmaker, director and producer. He graduated from the Czech Film Academy (FAMU) in Prague in 1975. He emigrated to the United States in 1980. He is now a professor and a director of a film program at Columbia College in Chicago. [cite web |url=http://www.kodak.com/US/plugins/acrobat/en/motion/students/onCampus/july2003/onCampusJul2003.pdf |title=Eight Films Emerge |publisher=Kodak |accessdate=2008-06-16 ]

He gained prominence from his documentary Velvet Hangover about the Czech New Wave - the Czech film industry before and after the Velvet Revolution. [cite news |title=Wild Decades and Velvet Hangovers |url=http://www.tol.cz/look/CER/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=14&NrIssue=24&NrSection=3&NrArticle=12451 |work=Transitions Online |date=2001-05-21 |accessdate=2008-06-16 ]

Now he is preparing another documentary called The Great Deception, which promotes a conspiracy theory that the fall of communism in Eastern Europe was a hoax. [cite web |url=http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2007/0914.html |title=Filming the Great Deception |accessdate=2008-06-16 |author=J.R. Nyquist |date=2007-09-14 |work= |publisher=financialsense.com]

He wrote an in-depth book "The Spotmeter and its application in cinematography and video" on proper metering techniques.Fact|date=June 2008

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