Joshua Butler

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Joshua Butler is a film director, editor, and writer best known for two science fiction/horror movies and a family movie, Prancer Returns, which is shown nearly every Christmas.

Butler graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema & Television, having written and directed the award-winning short Will Work for Food.

After graduation, he became a highly sought-after editor, cutting over 500 commercials, music videos, promos, trailers, documentaries, and television series. He has directed Beer Money, written by Rich Wilkes, who also wrote the hit movie xXx; Prancer Returns, produced by Raffaella De Laurentiis, which won Best Family Movie at the Young Artist Awards among many other honors; Saint Sinner, written and produced by Clive Barker, which was nominated for an International Horror Guild Award; and Deathlands: Homeward Bound, which was directed, produced, and edited by Butler in association with his former production company, Kinetic Pictures. Joshua was also co-executive producer for ESPN's first original film, A Season on the Brink. He has recently been editing for television (including Friday Night lights) and writing screenplays.

His father is Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Robert Olen Butler.

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