Benjamin Haslup

Ben Haslup is an alumnus of the James Madison University's School of Media Arts & Design. After graduating he made the award winning short film Taste of Evil, a film noir parody set inside a refrigerator with condiments for characters. Through a strange series of events, Taste of Evil led to a job at America's Most Wanted, where he went on to produce and direct multiple segments which led to the capture of fugitives around the country, including one from a decades old cold case murder in Harrisonburg, VA, home of his alma-mater. He's continued to work as a professional filmmaker ever since. Throughout his career, he's worked on the front lines as a writer, director, producer and editor in multiple genres. His credits range from shepherding the first season of a real life X-Files series "Paranatural" on National Geographic, to the true crime series People Magazine Investigates on Investigation Discovery. He served as co-executive producer, lead writer & editor on the premiere season of the horror/natural history mash up series Dead By Dawn for NatGeo Wild. And, further reflecting his interest in natural history storytelling, he's been behind some of the highest rated Shark Week specials of all time, including those starring world class athletes and celebrities like Michael Phelps in Phelps v. Shark and Shaquille O'Neal in Shaq Week.