Team > April Butler: DOP, editor
PAN PRODUCTIONS
April Butler, Director, Director of Photography, Editor
April began her career in production in Community Programming, first at Kamloops Cablenet then as the youngest Community Programming Manager for Comox Valley Cablenet. After nine years she moved on and put her diverse talents to work as the Director of Photography for ‘Nice Fish Series’ and ‘The New Canoe” series, and editor for the CTV documentary ‘The Vanishing Housewife’, the Bravo documentary, ‘Sounds Like Motown”, and the APTN series, ‘Down2Earth’.
As a freelancer, April worked for CTV, CBC, Global, Sports Page, Prime, CHEK, and Chum Television in various capacities over the years. She was sought after for key positions because of her strong reputation as a creative, diverse storyteller. April was also a director for The New VI television news and helped launched the station in October 2001. She directed talk shows, music performances, and social issue and arts based roundtables.
In 2006, April took a dramatic turn from news broadcast to follow her passion to direct documentaries. Her Directorial debut required April to draw upon her foundation skills as a cameraperson and storyteller allowing for intimate access to the unseen world of prostitution. The Leo nominated documentary, The Brothel Project aired on Global Television in June 2010.
The World Premiere of April Butler's new documentary, Father Figures, (Knowledge Network) was May 11/13 at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival in Vancouver. Check it out! fatherfiguresdocumentary.com