Ben Newman (born 23 March 1982) is an award winning music video, short film and television commercial director based in London, England.
Having worked on numerous music shows for the BBC, Channel 4 and MTV in the early 2000s, Newman made a number of budget videos for artists he'd had contact with during this time before being signed to Between The Eyes, a music video production company, in February 2010. Between The Eyes were subsequently merged into Pulse Films, a music video, advertising and feature film production company, in February 2011 who Newman continues to be represented by.
In 2009 Newman won the opportunity to direct his own short screenplay, "War School", which he had written in a competition run by Ctrl.Alt.Shift. The film went on to win both the 2010 Junior Award for Best Short and the Youth Film Makers Award from the BFI.
In October 2010, Newman won two awards at the 2010 UK Music Video Awards, the prestigious Best New Director award and the award for Best Budget Video for the Devil's Gun Zeitgeist remix of "Watch The Sun Come Up" by Example.
With a move into television commercials in 2011, Newman was nominated in the British Arrows Craft Awards as "Best New Director" for his very first advert which formed part of the Lucozade "Yes" campaign, and gained a win in the "Best Original Music" category.
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“Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me. Aren’t you?”
—Calder Willingham, screenwriter, Buck Henry, screenwriter, and Mike Nichols. Ben Braddock (Dustin Hoffman)
“I love the male body, it’s better designed than the male mind.”
—Andrea Newman (b. 1938)