Ben Selkow

Ben Selkow is an award-winning non-fiction film and television director, executive producer, and showrunner whose work has been exhibited on Netflix, HBO, Nat Geo, CNN, Sundance TV, Discovery, Participant Media, PBS/America ReFramed, Esquire Network, and at film festivals such as SXSW, Tribeca, Hot Docs and DOC NYC. Recently, he serves as an executive producer and director on the forthcoming docu-series "Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller" for Nat Geo. Previously, he was the executive producer and a director on Netflix's new 8-part hip hop docu-series entitled "Rapture" which featured films on Nas, 2 Chainz, T.I., Logic, Rapsody, G-Eazy, A Boogie wit a Hoodie, and super-producer Just Blaze. Ben has directed and produced international docu-series such as "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown", "Believer with Reza Aslan", and "The Getaway" with Mos Def aka Yasiin Bey, Nat Faxon/Jim Rash, and Zachary Levi. Ben has collaborated with Emmy Award-winning executive producers and creators Chris Collins & Lydia Tenaglia, Sacha Jenkins, Marc Levin, Jeff Grogan, and Danny Forster. His documentary film work covers a wide variety of global topics from social justice issues such as mental health disorders, women's maternal health to the connection between environmental destruction and mass conflict. Ben has produced and directed all over the world including: Vietnam, Japan, Morocco, Zambia, Haiti, India, Israel, Dominican Republic, Korea, France, Czech Republic, Chile, Mexico, and all over the United States.