A Whole Lott More
Feature length film Completed 2011
Director
Victor Buhler
Doc Society helped with
Production
Impact
Went to Good Pitch
Runtime: 90 minutes
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Lott Industries in Ohio, USA employs 1200 workers with developmental disabilities. For decades, the company has built car parts. However, with the decline of the auto industry, Lott Industries finds itself in trouble.
The company has twelve months to reinvent itself. A Whole Lott More details the most crucial year in 'Lott Industries'; history and follows three inspiring workers with disabilities as they join the struggle to hold onto the best job they have ever had.
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Website tools and outreach packs.
Crew
Victor Buhler
Director
Victor has directed and produced award-winning documentary and fiction films. His most recent documentary feature film Africa 10 tells the story of soccer in Africa. Executive produced by will.i.am, and shot in seven African countries, the film will be released later this year.
Victor directed and produced the feature Rikers High, about the high school for teens incarcerated in Rikers Island jail. Nominated for an Emmy in 2006, the film won the 'NY Loves Film' Award for Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival. Martin Scorsese executive produced Victor's fiction short Chaperone, a finalist for a Student Academy Award. The film screened on HBO and received numerous awards worldwide.
In the UK, Victor has directed BAFTA award-winning television drama programming for the BBC and for Channel 4. In the US, Doug Liman, director of The Bourne Identity, executive produced a television drama that Victor wrote, produced and directed for Fox Television.
In 2009, Victor won a grant from the United States Institute of Peace to complete a film about peace negotiators in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Victor began shooting A Whole Lott More while recovering from a serious car accident that put him on crutches for ten months.
