Brian Benson
Brian Benson is a filmmaker with a lengthy film resume. He most recently directed the short film Eat the Rainbow, which screens in the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center during Shorts Block Ten on Saturday, October 24. He also just produced a film with RuPaul’s Drag Race stars BeDeLaCreme and Jinkx Monsoon.
His previous two directorial projects were My Life Is a Dream (2015) and Love and Anger (2012). However, he has also served as either an assistant director or second unit director on twenty-one other films, including Sorry to Bother You (FAD, P, 2018), the short film Mini Supreme (AD, 2015), The Diary of a Teenage Girl (FAD, 2015), the short Red Run (FAD, 2013), All About Evil (FAD, P, 2010), La Mission 
(FAD, 2009), The Shift (FAD 2009), The Californians (FAD, 2005), The Story of O: Untold Pleasures (FAD, 2002), Exploding Oedipus (FAD, 2001), Bartleby (FAD, 2001), Obstacles (FAD, 2000), Nothing Sacred (AD, 2000), the documentary Blink (FAD, 2000), Playing Mona Lisa (SAD, 2000), Paradise Cove (SAD, 1999), This Space Between Us (SAD, 1999), 
Wildflowers (FAD, 1999), Mascara (FAD, 1999), Charmed & Dangerous (FAD, 1999) and Around the Fire (FAD, 1998).
In addition to the projects denoted by a P, Brian has also produced The Bride of Death (post-production), Eat the Rainbow, Bitter Melon (2018), the documentary Dolores (2017), the short film My Life 
Is a Dream (2015), Love and Anger (2012), the short Children of the Popcorn (2010), Howl (co-producer 2010), Full Grown Men (2006), Red Diaper Baby (2004), Dopamine (co-producer, 2003), Haiku Tunnel (2001) and The Watcher (line producer, 2000).
September 26, 2020.
About the Author
Tom Hall is both an amateur artist and aspiring novelist who writes art quest thrillers. He is in the final stages of completing his debut novel titled "Art Detective," a story that fictionalizes the discovery of the fabled billion-dollar Impressionist collection of Parisian art dealer Josse Bernheim-Jeune, thought by many to have perished during World War II when the collection's hiding place, Castle de Rastignac in southern France, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in reprisal for attacks made by members of the Resistance operating in the area. A former tax attorney, Tom holds a bachelor's degree as well as both a juris doctorate and masters of laws in taxation from the University of Florida. Tom lives in Estero, Florida with his fiancee, Connie, and their four cats.