Ben Ferris

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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