Ben Ferris
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Ben Ferris is an Australian filmmaker [1]. He was a co-founder of the Sydney Film School, of which he was the Director from 2004 to 2018.[2] In 2020 he co-founded Breathless Films, an AACTA-nominated production company that has produced the Australian feature films "Birdeater" (2023), "Tennessine" (2023), "Love Road" (2023), "The Longest Weekend" (2022), and "Lonesome" (2022).[3]
Notable Achievements
[edit]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)[4] and the Grand Prix at the One Take Film Festival[5] in Zagreb, Croatia for his short film "Ascension" (2004).[6] He has written and directed the feature film "Penelope" (2009)[7] (with an original score by renowned music composer Max Richter)[8] which screened in National Competition at the 56th Pula Film Festival[9] and the critically acclaimed[10][11] feature hybrid drama-documentary film "57 Lawson" (2016).[12] In 2017 he won a residency at the prestigious Cité internationale des arts in Paris.[13] 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".[14] In 2022 he was nominated for an AACTA in his role as producer of the feature film "Lonesome".[15]
References
[edit]- ^ "On the Couch with Ben Ferris". Australian Arts Review. 8 December 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
- ^ "SYDNEY FILM SCHOOL FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR DEPARTS". FilmInk. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
- ^ Slatter, Sean (14 November 2023). "Take Two: Ulysses Oliver and Ben Ferris". IF Magazine. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
- ^ "The Kitchen IMDB". IMDb.
- ^ "one take film festival number nine". www.onetakefilmfestival.com. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
- ^ "Ten films in ten take".
- ^ "Entrapped in a dream world". 25 May 2011.
- ^ "Penelope: Ben Ferris interview". SBS Movies. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
- ^ "Pula Film Festival". arhiv.pulafilmfestival.hr. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
- ^ Mathieson, Craig (20 October 2018). "Short Cuts: 57 Lawson, Jewish and Iranian film festivals". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
- ^ Wilson, Jake (23 October 2018). "Top five films: best of the big screen". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
- ^ "57 Lawson – An Interview with Ben Ferris". 13 September 2016.
- ^ "Filmmaker Ben Ferris: 2017 Cité resident". Power Publications. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
- ^ "KVIFF | Book of Projects". www.kviff.com. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
- ^ Lonesome (2022) - Awards - IMDb. Retrieved 25 September 2024 – via www.imdb.com.
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