A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Born:
October 14, 1982
Born in New York City and raised in Sunnyside, Queens and then Westchester County, Benh Zeitlin began his career as a filmmaker at the tender age of 6 when he and a friend made a Batman movie. He continued making films as a child before attending Wesleyan University, where he majored in film. After graduation, Benh spent a summer in Prague working with a prominent animation artist. Returning to the U.S., he worked in a private school in Manhattan helping elementary students create short films.
Director:
2005 Egg
2006 The Origins of Electricity
2008 Glory at Sea
2012 Beasts of the Southern Wild
2020 Wendy
Executive Producer:
2005 Egg
2006 The Origins of Electricity
2008 Glory at Sea
2012 Beasts of the Southern Wild
2019 Burning Cane
2019 Give Me Liberty
2020 Wendy
Music:
2005 Egg
2006 The Origins of Electricity
2008 Glory at Sea
2012 Beasts of the Southern Wild
2015 Mediterranea
2019 Burning Cane
2019 Give Me Liberty
2020 Wendy
2021 A Chiara
Original Music Composer:
2005 Egg
2006 The Origins of Electricity
2007 Death to the Tinman
2008 Glory at Sea
2012 Beasts of the Southern Wild
2015 Mediterranea
2017 Brimstone & Glory
2019 Burning Cane
2019 Give Me Liberty
2020 Wendy
2021 A Chiara
2021 To Chiara
Producer:
2005 Egg
2006 The Origins of Electricity
2007 Death to the Tinman
2008 Glory at Sea
2012 Beasts of the Southern Wild
2015 Mediterranea
2017 Brimstone & Glory
2019 Burning Cane
2019 Give Me Liberty
2020 Wendy
2021 A Chiara
2021 To Chiara
Screenplay:
2005 Egg
2006 The Origins of Electricity
2007 Death to the Tinman
2008 Glory at Sea
2012 Beasts of the Southern Wild
2015 Mediterranea
2017 Brimstone & Glory
2019 Burning Cane
2019 Give Me Liberty
2020 Wendy
2021 A Chiara
2021 To Chiara
Story:
2005 Egg
2006 The Origins of Electricity
2007 Death to the Tinman
2008 Glory at Sea
2012 Beasts of the Southern Wild
2015 Mediterranea
2017 Brimstone & Glory
2019 Burning Cane
2019 Give Me Liberty
2020 Wendy
2021 A Chiara
2021 To Chiara
Thanks:
2005 Egg
2006 The Origins of Electricity
2007 Death to the Tinman
2008 Glory at Sea
2012 Beasts of the Southern Wild
2015 Deer in the Headlight
2015 Mediterranea
2017 Brimstone & Glory
2019 Burning Cane
2019 Give Me Liberty
2020 Wendy
2021 A Chiara
2021 To Chiara
Writer:
2005 Egg
2006 The Origins of Electricity
2007 Death to the Tinman
2008 Glory at Sea
2012 Beasts of the Southern Wild
2015 Deer in the Headlight
2015 Mediterranea
2017 Brimstone & Glory
2019 Burning Cane
2019 Give Me Liberty
2020 Wendy
2021 A Chiara
2021 To Chiara
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
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.