Sunnyside Films

director of photography

Buddy Squires is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker and Emmy-winning director of photography best known as the cinematographer of numerous documentary features and television specials including New York, The Civil War, Crime & Punishment, Jazz, Baseball, The Donner Party, Ansel Adams, Mark Twain, One Survivor Remembers, Amato, Frank Lloyd Wright, Soldiers Of Peace: A Children’s Crusade, Compassion in Exile: The 14th Dalai Lama, The West, Scottsboro: An American Tragedy and Out of the Past.

Buddy has photographed six Oscar nominated films and one Academy Award winner. Sixteen of the films he has shot have been nominated for Emmy Awards and nine have won.

His producing credits include: The Statue of Liberty (Oscar nomination) and Coney Island (Sundance Film Festival). He is the director of Listening to Children (Emmy nomination) and the co-director of Fast Eddie, Seeking Justice, People’s Poetry, and War Files.

Buddy Squires is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and has served on the executive committee of the Documentary Branch. He is also a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.