- Mark Benjamin
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Mark Benjamin (born 1947) is an American documentary filmmaker. He is best known for the Sundance TV series Brick City[1] and the feature film Slam,[2] both of which were shot in his signature Cinema Verité style.
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Career
Director/Producer
Benjamin has worked throughout his career as a director/cameraman and his work in this area has produced such films as The Last Party,[3] a 1993 political documentary starring Robert Downey, Jr.,[4] and Jails, Hospital, Hip Hop,[5] an adaptation of Danny Hoch’s Danny Hoch highly praised one-man play.[6] In addition, he is an executive producer with Forest Whitaker and Marc Levin on the Sundance Channel series BRICK CITY.
One of his first films, the Jerusalem Peace (1977) was included in a New Directors series at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.[7]
Television
Benjamin was the director of photography for numerous television documentaries including HBO’s The Protocols of Zion, Prisoners of the War on Drugs,[8] Gang War: Bangin' in Little Rock,[9] Thug Life in D.C.,[10] and Soldiers in the Army of God,[11] and Discovery Channel’s CIA: America’s Secret Warriors.[12]
Awards
Benjamin’s work has won numerous awards, most notably for SLAM, which won both the Cannes Film Festival Camera D’OR and the Grand Jury prize at Sundance in 1998 the Sundance TV series BRICK CITY, which won the 2010 Peabody Award,[13] received a 2010 EMMY Nomination for Exceptional Merit in Non-Fiction Filmmaking,[14] the Cine Golden Eagle Award,[15] FACTUAL Entertainment Award,[16] and an NAACP Image Award Nomination.[17]
Filmography
Filmography (as Director)
BRICK CITY Season 2 (2010)
BRICK CITY Season 1 (2009)
WHY WE FIGHT NOW (2009)
GOING HOME (2003)
JAILS, HOSPITALS & HIP-HOP (2000)
THE LAST PARTY (1993)
PORTRAIT OF AMERICA - PUERTO RICO (1983)
CREATIVITY WITH BILL MOYERS / PERFORMING ARTS HIGH SCHOOL (1982)
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL - WOMEN INSIDE (1980)
JERUSALEM PEACE (1977)
COLD FRAME (1975)Filmography (as Director of Photography)
PROTOCOLS OF ZION (2005)
HOOKED (2004)
GOING HOME (2003)
THE BLUES (2003)
BROOKLYN BABYLON (2001)
JAILS, HOSPITALS & HIP-HOP (2000)
THUG LIFE IN DC (1997)
SLAM (1998)
AMERICA’S SECRET GOVERNMENT - CIA (1998)
EGG THE ARTS SHOW/CITY ARTS (1997–2001)
TALKING SEX (1995)
A TIME OF AIDS (1994)
GANG WAR (1994)
THE LAST PARTY (1993)
DAMNED IN THE USA (1992)
TAKEOVER (1990)
BADLANDS (1989)
DRUG FREE KID (1989)
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC THE ATOCHA (1987)
FRONTLINE - INSIDE THE JURY (1986)
WALL STREET CONNECTION (1985)
CREATIVITY WITH BILL MOYERS – PERFORMING ARTS HIGH SCHOOL (1982)
AMERICAN ZEALOT (1982)
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL - WOMEN INSIDE (1980)
THE NEW IMMIGRANTS SERIES (1980)
JERUSALEM PEACE (1977)
COLD FRAME (1975)References
- ^ Sundance profiles the Directors of Brick City http://www.sundancechannel.com/brick-city/profiles/mark-benjamin
- ^ SLAM http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139615/
- ^ The last Party (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107372/)
- ^ simple:Robert Downey, Jr.
- ^ Jails, Hospitals, and Hip Hop http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210130/
- ^ NY Times Review http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E05E5D9143DF933A25757C0A96E958260
- ^ MOMA Press release http://www.moma.org/search?query=Jerusalem+peace
- ^ IMDB listing http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272256/
- ^ IMDB Listing http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272104/
- ^ IMDB Listing http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0188235/
- ^ IMDB Listing http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259587/
- ^ IMDB Listing http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271410/
- ^ 2010 peabody award winners http://www.peabody.uga.edu/news/event.php?id=66
- ^ 2010 EMMY award nominations http://www.emmys.com/nominations?tid=126
- ^ 2010 CINE award recipients http://www.cine.org/winners/golden-eagle-award-recipients/index.php
- ^ 2010 Award winners list http://awards.realscreen.com/
- ^ 41st NAACP Image Award Nominees http://www.naacpimageawards.net/41/nominees-and-voting/nominees/
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- 1947 births
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