Ben Ferris is an Australian filmmaker [1] and Founder of the Sydney Film School, of which he was the Director from 2004 to 2018.[2]

As a film writer/director he has won major international awards, including the Grand Prix at the Akira Kurosawa Memorial Short Film Festival in Tokyo, Japan for his short film "The Kitchen" (2003)[3] and the Grand Prix at the One Take Film Festival[4] in Zagreb, Croatia for his short film "Ascension" (2004).[5]

He has written and directed the feature film "Penelope" (2009)[6] (with an original score by renowned music composer Max Richter)[7] which screened in National Competition at the 56th Pula Film Festival[8] and the critically acclaimed[9][10] feature hybrid drama-documentary film "57 Lawson" (2016).[11]

In 2017 he won a residency at the prestigious Cité internationale des arts in Paris.[12]

In 2018 he was shortlisted for the Eurimages Project Lab Award at the 53rd Karlovy Vary Film Festival for his feature film "In(di)visible".[13]

References

  1. ↑ "On the Couch with Ben Ferris". Australian Arts Review. 8 December 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  2. ↑ "SYDNEY FILM SCHOOL FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR DEPARTS". FilmInk. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  3. ↑ "The Kitchen IMDB". IMDb.
  4. ↑ "one take film festival number nine". www.onetakefilmfestival.com. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  5. ↑ "Ten films in ten take".
  6. ↑ "Entrapped in a dream world". 25 May 2011.
  7. ↑ "Penelope: Ben Ferris interview". SBS Movies. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
  8. ↑ "Pula Film Festival". arhiv.pulafilmfestival.hr. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  9. ↑ Mathieson, Craig (20 October 2018). "Short Cuts: 57 Lawson, Jewish and Iranian film festivals". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  10. ↑ Wilson, Jake (23 October 2018). "Top five films: best of the big screen". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  11. ↑ "57 Lawson – An Interview with Ben Ferris". 13 September 2016.
  12. ↑ "Filmmaker Ben Ferris: 2017 Cité resident". Power Publications. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  13. ↑ "KVIFF | Book of Projects". www.kviff.com. Retrieved 13 September 2018.


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