The Jellyfish Man

Ben is an LA based, Dallas born screenwriter and director who refuses to write in third person after this sentence. I grew up (ahh, much better) in the suburbs of North Dallas… where I felt completely out of place. My family bounced in-and-out of twelve different houses before I graduated high school, we bought groceries with food stamps, and had multiple cars repossessed. I’m also one of the eighty-six million Americans living with a diagnosable mental illness, Bipolar Type II. In other words, despite my flagrant extroversion (hello, showbiz!!!), I grew up an outsider. Thanks to my cinephile grandpa, movies were my escape and filmmaking became my therapy. Mental health, a desire for connection, family bonds/baggage, and faith — spiritual or amorphous — are themes I often explore in my work. I also love to make shit that simply lets people forget about their shit.