- Ben Shedd
Ben Shedd has been a professional film and video director, producer, and writer since 1970. He has won an
Academy Award .He earned a degree from the
University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts in 1973. [ [http://cinema.usc.edu/alumni/alumni-history/ Notable Alumni, USC School of Cinematic Arts] .]Ben Shedd shares a
Peabody Award for the second season of thePBS science series "Nova". As a member of the original production team, he worked on the very first program in1972 and acted as a director, producer, and writer during "Nova"’s second and third seasons in 1973-1976.Jacqueline Phillips Shedd and Ben Shedd, producers of "The Flight of the Gossamer Condor " film, received the1978 Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject . The film tells the story about history's first successful human powered airplane—designed by inventorPaul MacCready and his team fromAeroVironment and flown by pilot Bryan Allen.Since 1985, filmmaker Ben Shedd has directed and produced giant screen
IMAX -type science films, including "Seasons" and "Tropical Rainforest". Ben Shedd has described large-format film and fulldome video as “exploding the frame,” where the frame to which he refers relates to experiences typified by “framed” cinematic art.References
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