Ben Gibson works as an independent producer and teacher, mostly of script and creative production. Currently, he is producing with Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) at Velvet Films Paris. He was director of the DFFB (Deutsche Film & Fernsehakademie Berlin), West Germany’s oldest film school, from 2016 to 2020, and Director of Degree Programs at AFTRS Sydney 2014-16. Ben was Director of the London Film School from 2001-14. Before that, from the late 80s to 2001, he worked as an independent feature producer, and as Head of Production at the British Film Institute 1989 to 1999.

His credits as producer and executive producer include Terence Davies’ 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, as well as 25 other low budget features and numerous shorts by UK 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 an on-stage discussion host for the Berlinale Talents, a theatre director, a repertory film programmer, and a film critic and journalist. He became a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, awarded by the French Republic in 2006.