Benjamin Dickinson grew up in Wheaton, IL and moved to New York in 1999 to attend NYU's undergraduate film program. After graduation he and some college friends started Waverly Films in a warehouse in Bushwick, Brooklyn. He got his start directing music videos for DFA record artists such as LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture, and the Juan Maclean. He has since made videos for Q-Tip and Reggie Watts and directed commercials for Google, The Ford Motor Corporation, BMW, MTV, and Guitar Hero. A writer/director/actor in the vein of Woody Allen and John Cassavettes, Dickinson previously starred in his own first feature film, First Winter, which premiered at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival. He has also acted in Glass Eye Pic's I Can See You and the upcoming Thanksgiving.
Mill Valley Film Festival
