Joshua Butler
Joshua Butler is an American film and television director, producer and screenwriter best known for directing the 2001 film "Prancer Returns" and multiple episodes of many hit series including "The Vampire Diaries". He is the founder of "Iceblink Films", a movie production company based in the greater Los Angeles area. Biography. Joshua Butler graduated from USC's Film School having written and directed the award-winning short Will Work for Food (1995). By 2003 he had directed three series for the USA Network and Syfy, along with four feature-length films:>"Beer Money" (2001) written by "Rich Wilkes"; "Prancer  Returns" (2001) produced by Raffaella De Laurentiis (won 12 awards including Best Family Movie at the Young Artist Awards) and was featured on "The CW Network" in December 2012; "Saint Sinner" (2002) written and produced by Clive Barker (nominated for an International Horror Guild Award); and "Deathlands" (2003) which was directed and executively produced by Joshua Butler in association with his former production company>"Kinetic Pictures". Joshua Butler was also an executive producer on ESPN's first original film "A Season on the Brink" (2002) and the "MTV" hit "My Super Psycho Sweet 16" (2009), including two sequels. In 2008, Joshua  wrote and directed>"Vlog" (2008), a feature film for "Twisted Pictures", the producers of the "Saw" movie series. After its premiere at the Hollywood Film Festival,>"Vlog" (2008) went on to play at 21 film festivals and was released by "Anchor Bay Entertainment" on Halloween of 2011. Since 2011, Joshua Butler has directed multiple episodes of the hit series on "The CW Network" "The Vampire Diaries" (2009), "The Secret Circle" (2011), "Ringer" (2011), and>"Nikita" (2010). He also directed "Twisted", "Ravenswood" and "Pretty Little Liars" for the "ABC Family". He directed five episodes of "Kevin Williamson's" new "FOX" series "The Following" (2013 ), starring "Kevin Bacon"; "The Originals" (2013) for "The CW Network"; "Reckless" (2014) for "CBS" and "Crisis" (2014) for NBC. His recent work includes directing a music video for Ryan Star titled Bullet and the series "Matador" (2014) for Robert Rodriguez and the El Rey network. In 2015, Joshua will be directing his 11th episode of "The Vampire Diaries", Joe Carnahan's NBC thriller "State of Affairs", starring Katherine Heigl and is writing and directing a feature film. Awards. For "Prancer Returns" he received a DVD Exclusive Awards nomination for Best Director. Joshua also won an award from the Black Sexologists  Society for one or more of his films.