ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

Ben began writing stories in kindergarten. His first was a tragic alien romance that served as a creation myth for the sun and the moon. He grew up in Southeast Asia, spending grade school in Taipei, Jakarta and Bangkok. In college, he produced, co-directed and starred in Killer Toaster from Hell, a feature-length script that he wrote in three days on a dare. He joined the WGA West in 2015 and began directing short films in 2018. His directorial debut received an award from horror icon Joe Bob Briggs and his work has since been featured at over a dozen festivals, including the Academy Award-qualifying Nashville Film Festival. He is currently in production on his first post-collegiate feature. Ben resides in Brooklyn.

 
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PREVIOUS WORK

 
 

Writing & Directing

 

Lowtooth (202?)

The lives of two friends diverge after a traumatic encounter with a folkloric woodland monster. Currently in production. Watch the teaser here. Watch the trailer here.

“Maybe it’s just me and the trees.”

Enough Sleep (2021)

A new mother encounters a series of surreal horrors while being kept awake by her crying infant. Watch the teaser here. Watch the trailer here. Watch the full film here.

“I know that no one is trying to wear me like a coat.”

Relax (2020)

Sun! Sand! Stay away from the water! Made in quarantine with stock footage and auto-readers. Watch the film here.

"Her love for you is on the surface. They are here. In the deep.”

What’s Daddy Doing? (2020)

What is daddy doing? You may not like the answer. Made in quarantine with stock footage and auto-readers. Watch the film here.

“He is putting on his face…”

BELLS (2019)

A father learns the truth behind his son’s strange nightly ritual. Watch the teaser here. Watch the full film here.

Starring Destin Khari and Heinley Gaspard. Runtime 6 minutes.

“If that door opens, you know it’s not me or your mom or your sister.”

MISGUIDED (2018)

An aspiring actress wanders too far into the woods during a guided meditation. Watch the teaser here. Watch the full film here.

Starring Madeline Mahoney and Lizzie Minges. Runtime 10 minutes.

"You've become a very small circle inside your own body."

 

Writing

STILL BORN (2011)

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A college co-ed refuses to abort her stillborn baby, insisting that she is a virgin. Short version of the feature-length script Still Born.

Starring Shauna Siggelkow, Tip Scarry & Tessa Emmer. Runtime 28 minutes.

"Squirrels are such silly things. They spend all day dreaming they’re birds. That’s why they fall out of trees."

Here There Be Tigers (2010)

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Charles really needs to urinate but he's thwarted by a tiger lurking in the bathroom. A licensed adaptation of the Stephen King's 1968 short story "Here There Be Tygers."

Starring Moze Halperin, Samuel Sesek & Marisa Zakaria. Runtime 8 minutes.

"A tiger in the bathroom. Like...claws, fangs, a tail. A tiger."

THE LAST ACHE (2009)

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Ezra is driven to madness by his roommate's incessant knuckle cracking in this film noir modernization of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." Watch the full movie here.

Starring Nolan Wanecke, Zeke Eagan & Tessa Emmer. Runtime 15 minutes.

"It was supposed to take months. A strong build-up…kid starts sleepwalking, one night he goes too far. Dies of exposure. Clean. Simple. Sane. But it didn’t go that way."

 

LOGLINES

 

Since graduating college Ben has written over a dozen feature length screenplays, including The Chapel, which took second place in the horror category at the 2014 Slamdance Screenplay competition. For a detailed list of loglines, please contact him here.

“The art of looking at nobody. Skirt the
eyes. The edges of people. Then find some
fixed point. Walk with purpose. Look
meaningful. Lost in thoughts that are not
these.”
— Alexander Chapel, The Chapel