Writer. Director.

Ben is an award-winning Oakland based writer and director, who has been turning small budgets into engaging motion pictures; most notably, The Lake Merritt Monster and the M.O.A.B series of shorts. His biting action-satire web series Pennies for the Juggernaut was distributed online both domestically and internationally, garnering fans in Europe, South Korea, Japan and Australia. 

Ben’s films seek to explore our collective secret mythologies, joys, politics and mysticisms. Ever delving deeper and expounding on his love affair with Sci-Fi, Shamanism and Taoism, while enjoying the fun and thrill that only movies can provide.  He loves building worlds that transport the viewer from the archetypal world that they know to a mystifying adventure that will engage the heart and mind… because this is the journey he is on. 

Ben’s projects have been selected and screened at Mill Valley Film Festival, Montreal Independent Film Festival, Black Harvest Film Festival, Cinequest and the Oakland International Film Festival. He has been an SFFILM resident, Berkeley Film Foundation grantee, Cine Qua Non Lab fellow, SAGINDIE Fellow at the Stowe Story Labs and placed twice as a Sundance 2nd round finalist.

Ben is currently at work on developing the feature version of The Lake Merritt Monster and writing two new films.