Ben Hethcoat

Ben Hethcoat is an actor and independent filmmaker based in Los Angeles He served as Director of Slamdance TV and Documentary Programmer for the Slamdance Film Festival for three years and helped discover many criticallyacclaimed films which have found distribution through HBO Showtime Oscilloscope and The Orchard His first documentary as a Director DIY is about the independent filmmaking process and features exclusive interviews with Christopher Nolan Rian Johnson and the Russo Brothers In the summer of 2015 he participated in the American Storytellers Lab with Tribeca Film Institute and CNN Films for his ongoing documentary project about Dr Thomas Noguchi aka The Coroner to the Stars Ben produced and starred in the awardwinning short film THE BABYSITTER MURDERS which is currently on the film festival circuit In addition to Producing he has Assistant Directed numerous projects for NYU The American Film Institute UCLA and James Francos Rabbit Bandini Productions His film collaborations have screened at top festivals worldwide including Cannes SXSW Tribeca Fantastic Fest and Slamdance and have been showcased on numerous outlets including Rolling Stone Hulu Funny or Die and IndieWire