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Ben Ferris

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Ben Ferris is an Australian filmmaker [1] and Founder of the Sydney Film School, of which he was the Director from 2004-2018.[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".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  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.