JEFFREY BUTSCHER is a writer and producer of film and television. His bug with the entertainment business goes back to his early adulthood when his first taste was as an extra on Brian De Palma's Blow Out, starring John Travolta. Butscher is in pre-production on his original story and screenplay, The Treasure of Pirate's Cove, a theatrical family feature, with Rick Spalla directing and Butscher Executive Producing, along with his writing partner, Chip Fraser. While searching for lost treasure, time travelling pirates end up in the modern day and do battle with unlikely foes, a group of kids with the latest in tech gadgetry. The cast includes Malcolm McDowell, Sean Astin, Eric Balfour, Patrick Muldoon, Lew Temple and Denise Richards.

 

Butscher is currently shopping a scripted TV animated series, Cannabis Cannibals, co-created with David Bohnert, Co-EP of such reality shows as The Gong Show, Utopia and The Bachelor. Cannabis Cannibals stories the irreverent and comedic life of two weed smoking cannibals, who move to America in pursuit of becoming Reality TV Stars, while at the same time battling their unique eating disorder. He is also shopping a reality docu-series entitled, Cannibal. It is a life and death social experiment; wherein six Westerners are invited to live with the Korowai Tribe, one of the few remaining cannibal tribes located in the Indonesian Province of Papua. Butscher and his producing partner have negotiated unparalleled access to the tribe. Previously he was shopping two other reality TV shows he Co-Created, Terror Takedown and Battle Scars. His reality docu-series, Salon Confidential, was optioned by Left Field Productions. Butscher is also a Producer and in post-production on a Beatles feature documentary entitled The Magic and The Mystery. He was an Executive Producer on the reality TV show, Red Hot Design, starring Shasta Smith of The Vintage Monkey, broadcast on A&E's lifestyle channel, FYI. Butscher produced three prior films, a documentary, The Sound Track of Our Lives, and two feature films, The Adventures of Ragtime and One More Shot.

 

Butscher is also a licensed real estate broker in California and a Broker-Salesperson in Nevada under his brand BuyVegas. His brokerage, Jeffrey International, also provides capital for his independent projects. Butscher is an MBA candidate with Pepperdine University's Presidents and Key Executives (PEK) MBA program. He also studied Macroeconomics at Oxford University and has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). He resides in Manhattan Beach, CA and frequently travels to Las Vegas. His best creation so far is his beautiful daughter, Brigitte Butscher, who lives on the East Coast and is photographed with me.