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Australian filmmaker

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Ben Ferris is an Australian filmmaker. He was a co-founder of the Sydney Film School, of which he was the Director from 2004 to 2018. 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).

Notable Achievements

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) and the Grand Prix at the One Take Film Festival in Zagreb, Croatia for his short film "Ascension" (2004). He has written and directed the feature film "Penelope" (2009) (with an original score by renowned music composer Max Richter) which screened in National Competition at the 56th Pula Film Festival and the critically acclaimed feature hybrid drama-documentary film "57 Lawson" (2016). In 2017 he won a residency at the prestigious Cité internationale des arts in Paris. 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". In 2022 he was nominated for an AACTA in his role as producer of the feature film "Lonesome".

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. Slatter, Sean (14 November 2023). "Take Two: Ulysses Oliver and Ben Ferris". IF Magazine. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
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  7. "Entrapped in a dream world". 25 May 2011.
  8. "Penelope: Ben Ferris interview". SBS Movies. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
  9. "Pula Film Festival". arhiv.pulafilmfestival.hr. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  10. Mathieson, Craig (20 October 2018). "Short Cuts: 57 Lawson, Jewish and Iranian film festivals". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  11. Wilson, Jake (23 October 2018). "Top five films: best of the big screen". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  12. "57 Lawson – An Interview with Ben Ferris". 13 September 2016.
  13. "Filmmaker Ben Ferris: 2017 Cité resident". Power Publications. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  14. "KVIFF | Book of Projects". www.kviff.com. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  15. Lonesome (2022) - Awards - IMDb. Retrieved 25 September 2024 – via www.imdb.com.


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