Ben Proudfoot

Directing

Ben Proudfoot

Born

1990-10-29 (36)

Place of birth

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Ben Proudfoot (born 29 October 1990) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker. He directed The Queen of Basketball, winner of the 2021 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject; as well as co-director with Kris Bowers of the short documentary film A Concerto Is a Conversation, which was an Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 93rd Academy Awards in 2021. He and Bowers were also winners of the 2024 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject for The Last Repair Shop.

Known for

The Last Repair Shop poster
7.5

In a warehouse in the heart of Los Angeles, a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople maintain more than 80,000 student musical instruments, the largest remaining workshop in America of its kind. Meet four unforgettable characters whose broken-and-repaired lives have been dedicated to bringing so much more than music to the schoolchildren of this city.

The Last Repair Shop

2024

Rwanda & Juliet poster
NR

A feature documentary set in Kigali, Rwanda, the epicenter of the genocide that left a million dead two decades earlier. The film follows eccentric retired Dartmouth Professor Emeritus, Andrew Garrod, as he mounts Romeo and Juliet with college students from both Hutu and Tutsi backgrounds. Hopes, expectations, pasts, personalities and cultures collide as opening night approaches.

Rwanda & Juliet

2016

No artwork available
NR

Follow the unfolding of a catastrophic blizzard that swiftly buried the city of Buffalo in snow and darkness, cutting power, heat, and visibility to residents trapped at home and on roads. A McDonald’s manager breaks protocol to create an impromptu refuge, people instantly mobilize to rescue their neighbors, and a community comes together in the most unexpected Christmas Eve celebration.

The Buffalo Miracle

2026

Mink! poster
9.0

Told by her daughter Wendy, MINK! chronicles the remarkable Patsy Takemoto Mink, a Japanese American from Hawai'i who became the first woman of color elected to the U.S. Congress, on her harrowing mission to co-author and defend Title IX, the law that transformed athletics for generations in America for girls and women.

Mink!

2022

Dinner With Fred poster
NR

During World War II, Fred Conrad was taken from a troop train in Europe and sent home to Canada to use his pre-war chicken raising skills to stop war-time food shortages. Fred and his wife Hilda turn a misfortunate change-of-plans into a career in humane poultry science that proves to hold meaning and purpose beyond Fred's wildest dreams.

Dinner With Fred

2011

The Eyes of Ghana poster
NR

93-year-old documentarian Chris Hesse—personal cinematographer to forgotten African icon Kwame Nkrumah—races against blindness and time to rescue and repatriate a secret trove of over 1,300 films that captured the birth of African independence in the fifties and sixties. Yet unseen by the public, these films may not only rewrite Ghanaian and African history—but world history itself.

The Eyes of Ghana

2026

Behind the camera

The Last Repair Shop poster
7.5

In a warehouse in the heart of Los Angeles, a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople maintain more than 80,000 student musical instruments, the largest remaining workshop in America of its kind. Meet four unforgettable characters whose broken-and-repaired lives have been dedicated to bringing so much more than music to the schoolchildren of this city.

The Last Repair Shop

2024

The Last Repair Shop poster
7.5

In a warehouse in the heart of Los Angeles, a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople maintain more than 80,000 student musical instruments, the largest remaining workshop in America of its kind. Meet four unforgettable characters whose broken-and-repaired lives have been dedicated to bringing so much more than music to the schoolchildren of this city.

The Last Repair Shop

2024

Rwanda & Juliet poster
NR

A feature documentary set in Kigali, Rwanda, the epicenter of the genocide that left a million dead two decades earlier. The film follows eccentric retired Dartmouth Professor Emeritus, Andrew Garrod, as he mounts Romeo and Juliet with college students from both Hutu and Tutsi backgrounds. Hopes, expectations, pasts, personalities and cultures collide as opening night approaches.

Rwanda & Juliet

2016

Rwanda & Juliet poster
NR

A feature documentary set in Kigali, Rwanda, the epicenter of the genocide that left a million dead two decades earlier. The film follows eccentric retired Dartmouth Professor Emeritus, Andrew Garrod, as he mounts Romeo and Juliet with college students from both Hutu and Tutsi backgrounds. Hopes, expectations, pasts, personalities and cultures collide as opening night approaches.

Rwanda & Juliet

2016

Rwanda & Juliet poster
NR

A feature documentary set in Kigali, Rwanda, the epicenter of the genocide that left a million dead two decades earlier. The film follows eccentric retired Dartmouth Professor Emeritus, Andrew Garrod, as he mounts Romeo and Juliet with college students from both Hutu and Tutsi backgrounds. Hopes, expectations, pasts, personalities and cultures collide as opening night approaches.

Rwanda & Juliet

2016

No artwork available
NR

Follow the unfolding of a catastrophic blizzard that swiftly buried the city of Buffalo in snow and darkness, cutting power, heat, and visibility to residents trapped at home and on roads. A McDonald’s manager breaks protocol to create an impromptu refuge, people instantly mobilize to rescue their neighbors, and a community comes together in the most unexpected Christmas Eve celebration.

The Buffalo Miracle

2026

No artwork available
NR

Follow the unfolding of a catastrophic blizzard that swiftly buried the city of Buffalo in snow and darkness, cutting power, heat, and visibility to residents trapped at home and on roads. A McDonald’s manager breaks protocol to create an impromptu refuge, people instantly mobilize to rescue their neighbors, and a community comes together in the most unexpected Christmas Eve celebration.

The Buffalo Miracle

2026

Mink! poster
9.0

Told by her daughter Wendy, MINK! chronicles the remarkable Patsy Takemoto Mink, a Japanese American from Hawai'i who became the first woman of color elected to the U.S. Congress, on her harrowing mission to co-author and defend Title IX, the law that transformed athletics for generations in America for girls and women.

Mink!

2022

Mink! poster
9.0

Told by her daughter Wendy, MINK! chronicles the remarkable Patsy Takemoto Mink, a Japanese American from Hawai'i who became the first woman of color elected to the U.S. Congress, on her harrowing mission to co-author and defend Title IX, the law that transformed athletics for generations in America for girls and women.

Mink!

2022

Dinner With Fred poster
NR

During World War II, Fred Conrad was taken from a troop train in Europe and sent home to Canada to use his pre-war chicken raising skills to stop war-time food shortages. Fred and his wife Hilda turn a misfortunate change-of-plans into a career in humane poultry science that proves to hold meaning and purpose beyond Fred's wildest dreams.

Dinner With Fred

2011

Dinner With Fred poster
NR

During World War II, Fred Conrad was taken from a troop train in Europe and sent home to Canada to use his pre-war chicken raising skills to stop war-time food shortages. Fred and his wife Hilda turn a misfortunate change-of-plans into a career in humane poultry science that proves to hold meaning and purpose beyond Fred's wildest dreams.

Dinner With Fred

2011

The Eyes of Ghana poster
NR

93-year-old documentarian Chris Hesse—personal cinematographer to forgotten African icon Kwame Nkrumah—races against blindness and time to rescue and repatriate a secret trove of over 1,300 films that captured the birth of African independence in the fifties and sixties. Yet unseen by the public, these films may not only rewrite Ghanaian and African history—but world history itself.

The Eyes of Ghana

2026

The Eyes of Ghana poster
NR

93-year-old documentarian Chris Hesse—personal cinematographer to forgotten African icon Kwame Nkrumah—races against blindness and time to rescue and repatriate a secret trove of over 1,300 films that captured the birth of African independence in the fifties and sixties. Yet unseen by the public, these films may not only rewrite Ghanaian and African history—but world history itself.

The Eyes of Ghana

2026

The Baddest Speechwriter of All poster
NR

Now 93, Martin Luther King Jr.'s lawyer and speechwriter reflects on the personal cost and surprising truths of making history, offering an intimate insider's view of the Civil Rights Movement.

The Baddest Speechwriter of All

2026

The Baddest Speechwriter of All poster
NR

Now 93, Martin Luther King Jr.'s lawyer and speechwriter reflects on the personal cost and surprising truths of making history, offering an intimate insider's view of the Civil Rights Movement.

The Baddest Speechwriter of All

2026

Kunstglaser poster
NR

A veteran glassmaker explains his work in avant-garde stained glass designs.

Kunstglaser

2017

The Silent Pulse of the Universe poster
NR

Part of the Almost Famous series. Jocelyn Bell was a graduate student at Cambridge in 1967 when she pushed through the skepticism from her superiors to make one of the greatest astrophysical discoveries of the twentieth century. While Jocelyn was belittled and sexually harassed by the media, the Nobel Prize was awarded to her professor and his boss.

The Silent Pulse of the Universe

2021

The Final Copy of Ilon Specht poster
NR

The Final Copy of Ilon Sprecht is an intimate deathbed account of the unsung advertising genius who coined L'Oréal's iconic "Because I'm Worth It" slogan in 1971, a four-word feminist manifesto that, against all odds, changed advertising forever.

The Final Copy of Ilon Specht

2024

The Final Copy of Ilon Specht poster
NR

The Final Copy of Ilon Sprecht is an intimate deathbed account of the unsung advertising genius who coined L'Oréal's iconic "Because I'm Worth It" slogan in 1971, a four-word feminist manifesto that, against all odds, changed advertising forever.

The Final Copy of Ilon Specht

2024

A Concerto Is a Conversation poster
6.8

A virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer tracks his family's lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather from Jim Crow Florida to the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

A Concerto Is a Conversation

2020

A Concerto Is a Conversation poster
6.8

A virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer tracks his family's lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather from Jim Crow Florida to the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

A Concerto Is a Conversation

2020

A Concerto Is a Conversation poster
6.8

A virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer tracks his family's lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather from Jim Crow Florida to the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

A Concerto Is a Conversation

2020

If You Have: The Untold Story of UNICEF poster
NR

Oscar®-winning director Ben Proudfoot brings the inspiring untold story of UNICEF to life through first-person interviews and UNICEF’s never-before-seen archive. Discover this story of optimism as UNICEF celebrates 75 years of defending the rights of the world's youngest and most vulnerable citizens.

If You Have: The Untold Story of UNICEF

2022

If You Have: The Untold Story of UNICEF poster
NR

Oscar®-winning director Ben Proudfoot brings the inspiring untold story of UNICEF to life through first-person interviews and UNICEF’s never-before-seen archive. Discover this story of optimism as UNICEF celebrates 75 years of defending the rights of the world's youngest and most vulnerable citizens.

If You Have: The Untold Story of UNICEF

2022

Paper Ruscha poster
NR

Renowned Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha prints his newest work,”ZOOT SOOT” at Aardvark Letterpress.

Paper Ruscha

2015

The Turnaround poster
7.2

A devoted Philadelphia Phillies fan inspires his city to give a struggling shortstop a game-changing standing ovation in this rousing short documentary.

The Turnaround

2024

The Turnaround poster
7.2

A devoted Philadelphia Phillies fan inspires his city to give a struggling shortstop a game-changing standing ovation in this rousing short documentary.

The Turnaround

2024

The Queen of Basketball poster
7.1

Part of the Almost Famous series. She was arguably the greatest women's basketball player. She won three national trophies; she played in the ’76 Olympics; she was drafted to the NBA. But have you ever heard of Lucy Harris?

The Queen of Basketball

2021

The Best Chef in the World poster
8.0

Film reveals the true origins of The French Laundry, which Schmitt shaped into one of the world’s great restaurants before selling it to the now-legendary Thomas Keller .

The Best Chef in the World

2022

Kim I Am poster
10.0

Part of the Almost Famous series. Kim Hill was a rising singer when she met a young rapper named will.i.am, but she quit the Black Eyed Peas just before they became famous.

Kim I Am

2019

The Other Fab Four poster
NR

Part of the Almost Famous series. In the mid-1960s, four teenagers from Liverpool were changing the face of pop music. Their names were Mary, Sylvia, Pam, and Val — the Liverbirds!

The Other Fab Four

2019

Fibre & Wood poster
NR

Part of the Life's Work series. Fibre & Wood is a portrait of felting artist Sanna Rahola and woodcarver Douglas Drdul, who have formed a harmonious partnership as artists and as a couple.

Fibre & Wood

2015

Fibre & Wood poster
NR

Part of the Life's Work series. Fibre & Wood is a portrait of felting artist Sanna Rahola and woodcarver Douglas Drdul, who have formed a harmonious partnership as artists and as a couple.

Fibre & Wood

2015

The King of Fish and Chips poster
NR

In the late 1960s, Haddon Salt built a fast-food empire. Then Kentucky Fried Chicken came knocking.

The King of Fish and Chips

2019

That's My Jazz poster
10.0

A world-renowned pastry chef, reflects on his relationship with his deceased father Milton Abel Sr., famed Kansas City jazz musician.

That's My Jazz

2019

A Love Letter to Lisbon poster
NR

A documentary love letter to Lisbon, Portugal.

A Love Letter to Lisbon

2017

A Love Letter to Lisbon poster
NR

A documentary love letter to Lisbon, Portugal.

A Love Letter to Lisbon

2017

George poster
NR

Memories of the first World War told by an elderly man who remembers moments from the past while he wanders around his Nova Scotia farm. Using a combination of rescanned and remastered archival documentary footage and new cinematic recreations, George tells the story of one soldier’s experience and memory as a Canadian soldier in the First World War, which ended a century ago on 11 November 1918.

George

2018

George poster
NR

Memories of the first World War told by an elderly man who remembers moments from the past while he wanders around his Nova Scotia farm. Using a combination of rescanned and remastered archival documentary footage and new cinematic recreations, George tells the story of one soldier’s experience and memory as a Canadian soldier in the First World War, which ended a century ago on 11 November 1918.

George

2018

Doc Albany poster
NR

Dr. Sheena Favors must choose between city life or staying in rural Georgia to provide vital maternal care, following Doc Hollywood’s real-life inspiration, Dr. James Hotz.

Doc Albany

2025