A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Ben Franklin was born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, and is most well known as the Director/Creator/Producer of the popular web series "Bloody Cuts". Having formulated the filmmaking collective that makes up "Bloody Cuts", Ben has assumed many roles in the process and in 2012 Directed the popular short "Dead Man's Lake" (#3 in FilmSchoolRejects.com 'Short of the Year'). Following this he began his co-directing partnership with fellow filmmaker Anthony Melton, and since then they've Directed 4 short films, including 'Dare' and 'The Outer Darkness'. They're now in development on a number of UK and US feature based projects. Ben is represented in the US by APA and Circle of Confusion.
Assistant Director:
2012 Suckablood
Director:
2012 Dead Man's Lake
2012 Suckablood
2013 Dare
2014 Escape Zero
2014 The Machine Stopped Working
2015 Deathly Presents
2015 The Outer Darkness
2016 The Birch
2016 The Cabinet in the Woods
2018 Don’t Go Down to Wildor
Editor:
2011 2 Years of Summer
2011 Lock Up
2011 Prey
2011 Stitches
2012 Dead Man's Lake
2012 Mother Died
2012 Suckablood
2013 Dare
2013 Don't Move
2014 Escape Zero
2014 The Machine Stopped Working
2015 Deathly Presents
2015 The Outer Darkness
2016 The Birch
2016 The Cabinet in the Woods
2018 Don’t Go Down to Wildor
First Assistant Director:
2011 2 Years of Summer
2011 Lock Up
2011 Prey
2011 Stitches
2012 Dead Man's Lake
2012 Mother Died
2012 Suckablood
2013 Dare
2013 Don't Move
2014 Escape Zero
2014 The Machine Stopped Working
2015 Deathly Presents
2015 The Outer Darkness
2016 The Birch
2016 The Cabinet in the Woods
2018 Don’t Go Down to Wildor
Producer:
2011 2 Years of Summer
2011 Lock Up
2011 Prey
2011 Stitches
2012 Dead Man's Lake
2012 Death Scenes
2012 Mother Died
2012 Suckablood
2013 Dare
2013 Don't Move
2014 Escape Zero
2014 The Machine Stopped Working
2015 Deathly Presents
2015 The Outer Darkness
2016 Patient Seven
2016 The Birch
2016 The Cabinet in the Woods
2018 Don’t Go Down to Wildor
Sound Designer:
2011 2 Years of Summer
2011 Lock Up
2011 Prey
2011 Stitches
2012 Dead Man's Lake
2012 Death Scenes
2012 Mother Died
2012 Suckablood
2013 Dare
2013 Don't Move
2014 Escape Zero
2014 The Machine Stopped Working
2015 Deathly Presents
2015 The Outer Darkness
2016 Patient Seven
2016 The Birch
2016 The Cabinet in the Woods
2018 Don’t Go Down to Wildor
Story:
2011 2 Years of Summer
2011 Lock Up
2011 Prey
2011 Stitches
2012 Dead Man's Lake
2012 Death Scenes
2012 Mother Died
2012 Suckablood
2013 Dare
2013 Don't Move
2014 Escape Zero
2014 The Machine Stopped Working
2015 Deathly Presents
2015 The Outer Darkness
2016 Patient Seven
2016 The Birch
2016 The Cabinet in the Woods
2018 Don’t Go Down to Wildor
Writer:
2011 2 Years of Summer
2011 Lock Up
2011 Prey
2011 Stitches
2012 Dead Man's Lake
2012 Death Scenes
2012 Mother Died
2012 Suckablood
2013 Dare
2013 Don't Move
2014 Escape Zero
2014 The Machine Stopped Working
2015 Deathly Presents
2015 The Outer Darkness
2016 Patient Seven
2016 The Birch
2016 The Cabinet in the Woods
2018 Don’t Go Down to Wildor
Director:
2018 V/H/S: Video Horror Shorts
Editor:
2018 V/H/S: Video Horror Shorts
Writer:
2018 V/H/S: Video Horror Shorts
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While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.