Nathan Buck, Our Writer and Director

After early years as a professional actor, musician and mime artist Nathan began working in the UK’s film and video production in the early 2000’s. He started learning the business of film by assisting feature film producers Nick O’Hagan and Paul Raphael, and worked his way up to the role of line producer, before moving into writing and directing.

After arriving in NYC in 2005, his feature length documentary “Real Gone! Dance” competed successfully at the American Dance Film Festival in 2009. He specialized in arts documentaries while living with his wife, Megumi Eda, a professional dancer and filmmaker, and their 2 children in Harlem. Nathan began directing narrative shorts in the 90’s and has worked extensively as a video editor and shooter for 20 years. in 2015, he was invited to be filmmaker-in-residence at the prestigious Interlochen Center for the Arts, where he also directed the short film “Solitude” by Mia McCullough.

In 2018, he and his family moved to Berlin where he shifted his focus back to writing and narrative drama. “Before El Finâ” is Nathan’s first full length narrative film. He is a graduate of Northwestern University where he majored in Performance Studies.