Before The Fire

Directed By Charlie Buhler

When a global pandemic forces a TV actress to escape to her rural hometown, an intruder from her past proves as dangerous as the encroaching virus.

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Deep in the throes of a global pandemic, up-and-coming tv star, Ava Boone, is forced to flee the mounting chaos in Los Angles and return to her rural hometown. But as she struggles to acclimate to a way of life she left behind long ago, her homecoming attracts a dangerous figure from her past— threatening both her and the family that serves as her only sanctuary.
Born in South Dakota to an African American mother and caucasian father, director/ photographer Charlie Buhler strives to infuse her inherently multicultural point of view into all of her work. She is especially interested in using her unique perspective to normalize and bring nuance to experiences and narratives that rarely make it on screen: particularly those of women and people of color. Charlie recently completed her first feature “Before the Fire, and is in post production on her new documentary, “Rosebud”, which follows the lives of 3 Native American hip-hop artists on the reservation in South Dakota. Her clients include: Target, Google, Calvin Klein, The New York Times and more