Ben Segneri

Biography: Ben Segneri is a 19 year old Franco-American filmmaker currently studying Film at the University of Kent. Having started making stop motion animations at just 10 years old, Ben continued writing short films and music pieces with his friends, graduating high school with a French Baccalaureate specialised in film, before moving to England where he participated in making a dozen short films, and won several awards in screenwriting, score composition, and directing in his first two years of university. Having written and scored Just Be Yourself, an MGM-style musical, written an award winning score for the horror short “Hungry and Hunted”, managed special effects for the post-apocalyptic short “Death at the End”, written the script “Johnny the Friendly Zombie”, which was nominated for Best Screenplay at the BOBA Awards, and acted and crewed for many other projects, “Iris and Asriel”, which he wrote, scored and directed, is his most ambitious project to date; a deeply emotional short that explores themes of identity, memory, and the importance of art, winning the awards for Best Directing, Best Writing, and Best Score at the UKC Young Filmmakers Festival.