Cool Ford spot from Caleb Slain featuring Brian Cranston: Journeyman.

Always happy to work on brand collaborations with an Unboxtherapy.

Described by Boards Magazine as the “Soulful Surrealist”, Ben portrays experience through unexpected images that balance charm, discomfort, humanity and visual-wonder. He was featured as a Best New Director at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival as part of the Saatchi and Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase and named a Young Gun by the ADC. His promo for the band Beast was nominated for Best Music Video at the Grammys. His holiday Campaign for Samsung garnered a Cannes Lion. He has worked for clients such as Coca-Cola, Sprite, Google, Kellogg’s, Samsung, Unilever and Nintendo to name a few.

His recent short Marco & Polo Go Round, produced as both an immersive VR experience and a traditional narrative film has been to over 35 festivals worldwide, including Cannes XR, Clermont-Ferrand, Tribeca, Annecy and has garnered top prizes at many of these. He is in production on his second VR experience entitled Ghost Ship and financing his first feature, Fox Blood, a supernatural thriller, is out with BRB Productions.

RKSS, the Fantasia Film Festival favourite filmmaking collective consisting of Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell and François Simard (TURBO KID, SUMMER OF 84, WE ARE ZOMBIES), returns to the fest with their first slasher film, Wake Up.

The screenplay by Alberto Marini (SLEEP TIGHT) based on an original idea by Martin Soudan, and presented by Borsalino Productions and STUDlOCANAL, puts Gen Z through a violent reckoning.

A group of young activists set out to make an environmental statement by vandalizing a home superstore as it closes. But their plan goes terribly wrong when they become trapped inside and must face a deranged security guard with a gruesome passion for primitive hunting. As the night fills with violence and terror, the teenagers find themselves in a desperate fight for their lives as they find out man is the deadliest predator.

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A fun night at Fantasia is in store.