Joshua 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 (1995). He became a highly sought-after editor, cutting over 500 commercials, music videos, promos, trailers, documentaries and television series. In 1997, a theatrical documentary he edited, Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End (1996), won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. In 1998, he became the supervising editor on USA Network/Sci Fi Channel's original series "G vs E" (1999), and this led to him directing and editing the episode "Renunciation" which, among other raves, received an A- in Entertainment Weekly. After directing more episodes of the series, he began directing the USA/Sci Fi Channel shows "The Invisible Man" (2000) and "The Huntress" (2000). He then directed four movies in three years for USA/Sci Fi: Beer Money (2001) (TV) written by Rich Wilkes, who also wrote the hit movie xXx (2002); Prancer Returns (2001) (V) produced by Raffaella De Laurentiis, which won Best Family Movie at the Young Artist Awards among many other honors; Saint Sinner (2002) (TV), written and produced by Clive Barker, which was nominated for an International Horror Guild Award; and Deathlands (2003) (TV), which was directed, produced and edited by Joshua in association with his former production company Kinetic Pictures. Joshua was also co-executive producer of ESPN's first original film A Season on the Brink (2002) (TV). Recently he edited the pilot of NBC's "Surface" (2005) and episodes of NBC/Jerry Bruckheimer's "E-Ring" (2005), ABC's "Men in Trees" (2006) and NBC's critically acclaimed "Friday Night Lights" (2006). He has written an independent feature that he intends to direct in 2007.
