ABOUT BEN CROWE

Ben is an award-winning writer-director.
 
He was nominated for the prestigious Palme D'Or at the Festival de Cannes for his first short film ‘The Man Who Met Himself’ (2005).
 
His films are regularly nominated in competition and screen in film festivals worldwide, including Oscar qualifiers such as Edinburgh, Athens (Ohio) and Miami.
 
In 2008 he was selected as a British Director participant at the exclusive Berlinale Talent Campus, and funded to attend by UK Skillset.
 
Ben's work encompasses character-driven narrative fiction, hard-hitting social documentary and the lyricism of experimental art-based filmmaking.
 
List of Awards
Palme D’Or nomination (The Man Who Met Himself) * Winner Best Short Film (Thriller) International Festival of Cinema Technology (The Man Who Met Himself) * Joint Winner Best Experimental Short Film, The End of the Pier Film Festival (Je Suis Ici) * Selected British Writer/Director for Berlinale Talent Campus * Nominated for Anthony Minghella Short Film Award (Bound)

Films selected for Official Competition in Winnipeg International Film Festival * Festival de Cannes * Sacramento Film and Music Festival * Edinburgh International Film Festival * Anonimul International Film Festival * Drifting Clouds International Film Festival (New Zealand)* Cape Town International Film Festival * Starz Denver International Film Festival * Alameda International Film Festival * GNER Leeds International Film Festival * Cork Super 8 Fringe Festival * Miami International Film Festival * Victoria International Film Festival (Australia)* Keswick Film Festival * Birmingham Flatpack Film Festival * 6th London Short Film festival * End of the Pier International Film Festival * Athens (Ohio) International Film Festival * Mid-Ulster Film Festival * Underground Filmmaker Festival * Hull International Film Festival * London Independent Film Festival * New Horizons International Film Festival * Braunschweig International Film Festival * Cannes in a Vans Festival