Ben Ferris

As a film writer/director he has won major international awards, including the Grand Prix at the Akira Kurosawa Memorial Short Film Festival in Tokyo, Japan for his short film "The Kitchen" (2003)^{[citation needed]} and the Grand Prix at the One Take Film Festival^[4] in Zagreb, Croatia for his short film "Ascension" (2004).^[5] He has written and directed the feature film "Penelope" (2009)^[6] (with an original score by renowned music composer Max Richter)^[7] which screened in National Competition at the 56th Pula Film Festival^[8] and the critically acclaimed^[9][10] feature hybrid drama-documentary film "57 Lawson" (2016).^[11] In 2017 he won a residency at the prestigious Cité internationale des arts in Paris.^[12] In 2018 he was shortlisted for the Eurimages Project Lab Award at the 53rd Karlovy Vary Film Festival for his feature film "In(di)visible".^[13] In 2022 he was nominated for an AACTA in his role as producer of the feature film "Lonesome".^{[citation needed]}