Ben Nabors

Ben’s debut feature documentary William and the Windmill, about inventor William Kamkwamba, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2013 SXSW Film Festival. In 2016, his second feature documentary The Happy Film, about graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. In 2017, it opened theatrically in Europe to a top 10 ranking in the box office and debuted at #6 on iTunes (documentary) in North America.  Ben co-wrote and produced The Sound Of Silence, starring Peter Sarsgaard and Rashida Jones, which premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019 and was released by IFC and Sony Worldwide. 

As a screenwriter, Ben’s work has been selected for IFP's Emerging Storyteller's Program, the Screenwriting Lab at the Hampton’s International Film Festival, where his script was a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Screenplay Award, and the Sun Valley Film Festival’s Screenwriter’s Lab, where his script won the High Scribe Award from Mark Duplass.

Filmmaker Magazine named Ben amongst the “25 New Faces of Independent Film”, GOOD Magazine recognized him as a “GOOD 100”, the Dolby Institute honored him with an inaugural Dolby Family Fellowship, and the US State Department tapped him as a “Film Envoy” within the American Film Showcase cultural diplomacy program.