Benjamin Duffield

Benjamin Duffield is a Montreal-based filmmaker who works on both sides of the street, directing and editing fiction and documentary films. Since graduating from the University of British Columbia with a B.A. in Film and Theatre in 1993, he has created award-winning movies and television for the Canadian and American markets. In 1996 he joined five filmmakers to make "Yukonna," an expedition documentary on the Yukon River that retraced the prospectors' journey a century ago. The film was sold to National Geographic, won several awards, and played on the CBC during their 1998 Canada Day celebrations. His most recent accomplishments include directing the sci-fi feature "Darwin" starring Nick Krause and Molly Parker, which premiered at the 2016 Vancouver World Film Festival, and co-editing "Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World," which won a Special Jury Prize for Masterful Storytelling at Sundance 2017 and Canadian Screen Awards for Best Feature Documentary, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing. His latest feature documentary is a passion project he produced and directed over ten years entitled "Megalodemocrat: The Public Art of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer." It won Best Canadian Film at Montreal's International Festival of Films on Art in 2018 and has gone on to screen at festivals on five continents worldwide.