Film Forum

BUDDY SQUIRES is an Oscar®-nominated filmmaker, an Emmy®-winning cinematographer and a member of both the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Squires has been the DP for nearly all of Ken Burns’ major works for television including The Roosevelts, The Dust Bowl, Prohibition, Baseball, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, and The Civil War. Squires’ more than 200 screen credits include two Oscar® winners, seven Oscar® nominees and 10 Emmy®-winning productions. Squires was the DP on two films that premiered at the 2019 New York Film Festival: OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE (a Film Forum premiere in 2020) and COLLEGE BEHIND BARS. He also directed and photographed BEYOND THE BEACH, which screened at the 2019 Venice Film Festival. Squires is currently working on films about Muhammad Ali, Martin Luther King, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, Dante and dancer Diana Vishneva. The cinematographer’s other credits include TV projects Country Music, Vietnam, The Vietnam War, Jackie Robinson, and American Masters as well as films THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE, ETHEL, THE DONNER PARTY, SALINGER, BETTING ON ZERO, BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY, THE LAST DALAI LAMA?, and RANCHER, FARMER, FISHERMAN.

JOE NEUMAIER, host of the weekly “Movie Minute” on 710AM-WOR, has been a film journalist, critic, Q&A moderator, and radio/TV commentator for over 30 years. Formerly Chief Film Critic/Film Editor at The New York Daily News, his film writing has appeared in The New York Times, Variety, Time, The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, and The London Observer, and his broadcast appearances include MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, New York’s 77-WABC, KSRO radio San Francisco, and KTLA-Los Angeles.

Links