Ben Gibson
Direktor

Ben Gibson leitete von 2001 bis 2014 die London Film School. Von den späten 1980er Jahren bis 2001 war er unabhängiger Filmproduzent und zwischen 1989 und 1999 Head of Production des British Film Institutes. Zu seinen weiteren beruflichen Stationen gehörten darüber hinaus die Gründung des  Londoner Metro Cinema und die Arbeit als Filmjournalist.

Ben Gibson arbeitete in den 1990er Jahren als Produzent mit Regisseuren wie Terence Davies (THE LONG DAY CLOSES, 1992), Derek Jarman (WITTGENSTEIN, 1993), John Maybury (LOVE IS THE DEVIL, 1997), Carine Adler (UNDER THE SKIN, 1997) und Jasmin Dizdar (BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, 1998) zusammen. Zuvor war er an der Australian Film Televison and Radio School in Sydney tätig.

Seit Februar 2016 ist Ben Gibson der Direktor der DFFB.

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Ben Gibson is the Director of the DFFB. He worked at the Australian National Film School (2014-2016) and was Director of the London Film School (2001-14). He is also a visiting professor at Goldsmiths London University. From 1986 to 2001 he worked as an independent producer and as Head of Production at the British Film Institute (BFI). 

His production credits include: Terence Davie’s THE LONG DAY CLOSES, Derek Jarman’s WITTGENSTEIN, John Maybury’s LOVE IS THE DEVIL, Carine Adler’s UNDER THE SKIN and Jasmin Dizdar’s  BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, more than 20 other low budget features and numerous short films by directors including Patrick Keiller, Gurinder Chadha, Lynne Ramsay, Richard Kwietniowski and Andrew Kotting.

From 1981 to 1987 he was a partner in distributors The Other Cinema/Metro Pictures, acquiring and promoting films by Almodovar, Marker, Akerman and Godard, as well as opening London’s Metro Cinema. He has also been a theatre director, a film programmer and a film critic and journalist.