Ben’s debut feature documentary WILLIAM AND THE WINDMILL, about inventor William Kamkwamba, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2013 SXSW Film Festival. In 2016, his second feature documentary THE HAPPY FILM, about graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Ben co-wrote and produced THE SOUND OF SILENCE, starring Peter Sarsgaard and Rashida Jones, which premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019 and was released by IFC and Sony Worldwide. He wrote and produced ACTOR SEEKS ROLE, starring Alex Karpovsky and Dylan Baker, which won the Grand Jury Prize at IFFBoston and premiered with The New Yorker. Filmmaker Magazine named Ben amongst the “25 New Faces of Independent Film”, GOOD Magazine recognized him as a “GOOD 100”, the Dolby Institute honored him with an inaugural Dolby Family Fellowship, and the US State Department tapped him as a “Film Envoy” within the American Film Showcase cultural diplomacy program.