Noah Buschel

Noah Buschel
Born	1978 (age 46–47) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter
Years active	2003–present

Noah Buschel (born 1978) ^[1] is an American film director and screenwriter.

Early life

Buschel was born in Philadelphia and grew up in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. ^{[1] [2]}

Career

Buschel's first film, Bringing Rain , premiered at the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival. ^[3] His second film, Neal Cassady, was distributed by IFC. His third, The Missing Person , premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival ^[4] and was distributed theatrically by Strand Releasing. It earned Buschel a 2009 Gotham Awards nomination for Breakthrough Director. ^[5] He has collaborated with cinematographer Ryan Samul on four movies: The Missing Person , Sparrows Dance , Glass Chin and The Phenom . Matt Prigge of Metro New York wrote that, "Noah Buschel might be one of indies' most interesting filmmakers, all the more so because he doesn't belong to any easily promotable group or even genre." ^[6]

Buschel was a contributing editor for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review and ordained as a Zen priest by Enkyo Pat O'Hara. ^[7] As an essayist for Filmmaker Magazine . His topics have included gun violence in films. ^[8]

Filmography

Year	Title	Credited as	Notes
2003	Bringing Rain	Writer, director	Premiered at Tribeca Film Festival
2007	Neal Cassady	Writer, director	Distributed by IFC
2009	The Missing Person	Writer, director	Premiered at Sundance Film Festival and distributed by Strand Releasing
2013	Sparrows Dance	Writer, director	Won Best Narrative Feature at the 2012 Austin Film Festival [9]
2014	Glass Chin	Writer, director	Distributed by Entertainment One
2015	The Phenom	Writer, director	Distributed by RLJ Entertainment
2020	The Man in the Woods	Writer, director	Starring Marin Ireland and William Jackson Harper

References

1. "Noah Buschel, 'The Missing Person': Trusting Your Instincts and Avoiding Indie Cliche". Indiewire . January 9, 2009. Archived from the original on July 29, 2016. Retrieved July 29, 2016. I was born in 1978 in Philadelphia. I grew up in Greenwich Village.
2. "Tribeca Film Festival 2014: A Picture Of New York City In 10 Films". The Huffington Post . April 14, 2014. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015.
3. Reilly, Stephen (April 12, 2014). "2014 Tribeca Film Festival Filmmaker Profile: Noah Buschel (Writer/Director – 'Glass Chin')". IndieNYC.com. Archived from the original on July 29, 2016. Retrieved July 29, 2016.
4. McCarthy, Todd (February 4, 2009). "Review: 'The Missing Person'". Variety . Archived from the original on July 31, 2016. Retrieved July 31, 2016. Reviewed at Sundance Film Festival (Spectrum)
5. "Gotham Award Nomination and Theatrical Release for Class Film". The Edit Center. October 20, 2009. Archived from the original on July 31, 2016. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
6. Prigge, Matt (June 24, 2016). "'The Phenom' is an unusually stripped-down indie about baseball". Metro New York . Archived from the original on August 29, 2018.
7. Service, JOE ORSO Columbia News. "Zen Goes Mainstream". The Ledger. Retrieved 2025-08-18.
8. Buschel, Noah (February 20, 2017). "Catching Bullets in the Rye". Filmmaker . Archived from the original on August 12, 2018.
9. Cwelich, Lorraine (August 23, 2013). "Boardwalk Empire's Paul Sparks on Jazz, Scorsese, and 'Sparrows Dance'". Elle . Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved July 29, 2016.

External links

• Noah Buschel at IMDb  
• Garza, Jake Luis (n.d.). "FSHN Sits Down with Noah Buschel, Director of 'Glass Chin'". FSHN Magazine. San Francisco, California: Klasique Corp. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved July 29, 2016.
• Van Couvering, Alicia (January 19, 2009). "The Missing Person's Noah Buschel". Filmmaker . Archived from the original on April 3, 2016. Retrieved July 29, 2016.