Miriam Bell Bucher (1912- 2002) was a pioneering 20th-century female writer, editor, and director of documentary and educational films primarily based on international topics.
[1] Early in her career, Miriam Bell was a film critic at the Miami Daily News.
[2] She then worked as an assistant to Pare Lorentz, well-known documentary director of films such as The Plow that Broke the Plains.
Together with her husband, filmmaker Jules Bucher, whom she married in 1940, she worked with the Motion Picture Division of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, producing numerous films about South America, often collaborating with filmmaker Julien Bryan.
With Louis de Rochemont Productions, she went to Burma in the early 1950s to help establish the film industry there, serving as writer-editor member of the team and also assistant manager.