Benjamin Barfoot

Benjamin Barfoot is a self-taught filmmaker who hails from Devon. Filmmaking is in his family – his grandfather Peter Draper worked as a screenwriter with Oliver Reed and Orson Welles. Beginning at age ten Barfoot shot 8 mm animated movies and music videos, a background that set him up for later cooperation with television stations BBC and MTV, where he took on a variety of film jobs: editor, cameraman, and visual effects compositor. He has made short movies in… (plus)