Written and produced well before the Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and the 2016 Trump presidential election, the film is a story about a young man who tries to sever ties to a disenfranchised, small town radical militia started by his father. Distributed by Phase 4 Films, "Bucksville" stars Thomas Stroppel, Ted Rooney and Allen Nause, with a cameo role by Academy Award Nominated actor Tom Berenger as The Patron of Justice. Along with Pulitzer Prize winning photographer David Hume Kennerly, Berenger is also an executive producer on the film.. The screenplay is by Laura McGie and Chel White, with music is by Tom Brosseau. Jamie S. Rich of The Oregonian calls Bucksville, “An insightful portrayal of an extreme point of view without the expected self-righteous critique.” White's museum screenings include the Van Gogh Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and The High Museum in Atlanta. His retrospective presentations include the Ann Arbor Film Festival (2002), Southern Circuit (2002), the Austin Film Society (2003),, a 20-year career retrospective at the Northwest Film Center (in the Portland Art Museum) (2012), and a Bent Image Lab retrospective and masterclass at the Ottawa International Animation Festival (2018). Chel White is the recipient of media arts Fellowships from The Rockefeller Foundation The Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland Oregon, and project grants from Creative Capital, the Pacific Pioneer Fund and the Oregon Arts Commission. "Fever Dreams and Heavenly Nightmares", a DVD compilation of Chel White's short independent films, was released in 2006 and distributed by Microcinema International. Chel White started his professional career in 1986, working as an animator at Jim Blashfield and Associates (Portland, Oregon) on music videos for Paul Simon, Tears for Fears and Michael Jackson. In 1991, he began creating visual effects for film director Gus Van Sant, starting with "My Own Private Idaho" (1991). White went on to be Visual Effects Supervisor on Van Sant's "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues" (1993), "Paranoid Park" (2007), "First Kiss" (2007), "Milk" (2008) and "Restless" (2011), as well as the "death eye sequence" for "To Die For", visual effects supervisor and titles designer on Dustin Lance Black's "Virginia", and title effects supervisor on director Todd Haynes' film, "I'm Not There". In 2020, Chel oversaw the animated sequences for David Oyelowo's feature film, The Water Man.