Bobette Buster

Bobette Buster is the Writer/Producer of the feature documentary, Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound, with Karen Johnson and Midge Costin (Director) - the US premiere, Tribeca Film Festival 2019, International premiere, Cannes Film Festival, 2019, BFI London Film Festival, amongst many others. Her TED lecture, The Radical Act of Storytelling posted June, 2019. She is also Professor of the Practice of Digital Storytelling, Northeastern University, the author of Do Story: How to Tell Your Story So the World Listens (Do Book Co.UK, 2013; Chronicle Books (US), now in its 10th printing (translated into five languages), and Do Listen: Understand What's Really Being Said, Find A New Way Forwards, Do Book Co (UK) 2018; Chronicle Books (US). Both books are available on Audible.com (Penguin/Random House) Bobette is also on the Visiting Faculty of Pixar Studios, Disney Animation, Catholic University of Milan, as well as many film, business programs worldwide, including Google and the BBC. In addition, Bobette leads workshops on "How to Tell Your Story So the World Listens" for DO Lectures (UK) as well as to corporations in-house worldwide. Bobette discovered her passion for storytelling while gathering the oral history of her Kentucky family and their neighbors' Revolutionary War Land Grant farms heritage, a collection now housed in the Kentucky Museum Archives. She graduated from a BS in Speech from Northwestern University, majoring in Performance Arts and Film History. She earned her MFA from the University of Southern California's Peter Stark Producing Program. She worked as a creative executive in Hollywood for Tony Scott, Ray Stark and Larry Gelbart, while also creating the first MFA course for Feature Film and Television Development at USC, where she was an Adj. Professor since 1992.