Buddy Squires is an Oscar nominated filmmaker and Emmy winning director of photography.

He is best known as the cinematographer of numerous documentary features and television specials including: Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson; Jazz; The Civil War; After Innocence; Ring of Fire; Broadway: The American Musical; The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo; Mark Twain; Ram Dass: Fierce Grace; Crime & Punishment; Smashed; New York; Baseball; Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery; The Donner Party; Reporting America at War; Ansel Adams; One Survivor Remembers; Amato; Frank Lloyd Wright; Soldiers Of Peace: A Children’s Crusade; Heart of a Child; Compassion in Exile: The 14th Dalai Lama; Chimps: So Like Us; The West; Out of the Past; High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music; and Scottsboro: An American Tragedy.

Squires has photographed six Oscar nominated films and one Academy Award winner. Eighteen of the films he has shot have been nominated for Emmy Awards and eleven have won.

His producing credits include:  The Statue of Liberty (Oscar nomination with Ken Burns) 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.