Aug 11, 2021
Ben Cole
Ben has been a freelance award winning professional for over 25 years. with 30 years experience working on feature dramas, feature documentaries, short dramas, music videos, commercials and corporate video, seen on any sized screen; international cinema, on TV or on the world’s mobiles.
He was DoP on a 90 min documentary on Bruce Springsteen and a similar film on Roy Orbison and his sons screened on BBC & channel 4 last Xmas. This year he is shooting on a doc about Steve Lukather a legend in the rock session world, from the Band Toto with interviews from Ringo Star and ‘Slash’.
His youth: was spent as a professional actor working on Drama both on TV and Cinema and Commercials, as well as on stage in London’s West End Theatre, worked on $25m films in Italy, and stared opposite Anthony Perkins and Carol Baker and Christopher Lee.
In the early 90’s, he stepped the other side of the camera and his work has taken him many times around the globe filming a diverse cross section of society from hobos to celebrities.
He has @I am comfortable in any culture from Namibian Tribesmen to Buddhist monks in China’.
Ben and I jam around the idea of creativity and Ben has the clearest exposition of creativity yet with stories of shaman, mystics and the meetings and filming of Sathya Sai Baba where very strange things happened. Ben also does a magic trick for those of you on YouTube.
BEN COLE: SHOW REELS AND KIT (bencolecinematographysite.com)
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Big thanks to Josh Ferrara for the music