Ben Shedd has been a professional film and video director, producer, and writer since 1970. He has won an Academy Award.He earned a degree from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts in 1973.Ben Shedd shares a Peabody Award for the second season of the PBS science series Nova. As a member of the original production team, he worked on the very first program in 1972 and acted as a director, producer, and writer during Nova’s second and third seasons in 1973-1976.Jacqueline Phillips Shedd and Ben Shedd, producers of The Flight of the Gossamer Condor film, received the 1978 Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject. The film tells the story about history's first successful human powered airplane—designed by inventor Paul MacCready and his team from AeroVironment and flown by pilot Bryan Allen.Since 1985, filmmaker Ben Shedd has directed and produced giant screen IMAX-type science films, including Seasons and Tropical Rainforest. Ben Shedd has described large-format film and fulldome video as “exploding the frame,” where the frame to which he refers relates to experiences typified by “framed” cinematic art.
Doing research and teaching in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University where he is developing design criteria for effective ways to use giant screen projection systems in informal science education.
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Directing and producing HD Widescreen documentaries and developing a digital display wall for informal science education museums and science centers. [June 2007]
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Star Waiters
2009
Short executive producer / producer
Green Is the Color of Money
2007
Video documentary short co-producer
Tropical Rainforest
1992
Documentary short producer
Seasons
1987
Documentary short producer
The Flight of the Gossamer Condor
1978
Documentary short producer
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Green Is the Color of Money
2007
Video documentary short documentaries
Tropical Rainforest
1992
Documentary short
Seasons
1987
Documentary short
The Flight of the Gossamer Condor
1978
Documentary short
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Green Is the Color of Money
2007
Video documentary short
Seasons
1987
Documentary short story
Assistant Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Star Waiters
2009
Short assistant director
The Homefront
1985
Documentary director: interview segments
Editor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Seasons
1987
Documentary short
The Flight of the Gossamer Condor
1978
Documentary short
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Seasons
1987
Documentary short concept
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
1987
TV Movie documentary visual advisor
Visual Effects
Title
Year
Status
Character
Star Waiters
2009
Short titles
Camera Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Flight of the Gossamer Condor
1978
Documentary short director of photography: additional photography
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Nova
2004
TV Series documentary special thanks - 1 episode
Voice in Exile
1984
Short very special thanks
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1979
Oscar
Academy Awards, USA
Best Documentary, Short Subjects
The Flight of the Gossamer Condor (1978)
Known for movies
Tropical Rainforest (1992) as Producer
Seasons (1987) as Producer
The Flight of the Gossamer Condor (1978) as Producer
$250,000
