- Robert Buchar
Robert Buchar is an American filmmaker, director and producer. He graduated from the
Czech Film Academy (FAMU) inPrague in 1975. He emigrated to theUnited States in1980 . He is now aprofessor and a director of a film program atColumbia College inChicago . [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 theCzech New Wave - the Czechfilm industry before and after theVelvet 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 aconspiracy theory that thefall of communism inEastern Europe was ahoax . [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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