Born and raised in Switzerland, Benjamin started his career as a music video director before attending ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena. His short narrative film, Lineman, was awarded a Founder’s Circle Grant from the Louisiana Film Prize in 2013 and screened internationally.

As a Designmatters Fellow in 2014 he created a series of short films for Homeboy Industries, an internationally recognized gang prevention and rehabilitation organization based in Los Angeles.

His other non-fiction work includes Elite Forces web series executive produced by David Gale and released on Verizon’s digital media platform Go90. His short documentary Where’s Daryl?, is about a gun-violence prevention campaign at LAUSD and will be exhibited at the Smithsonian in 2016.

Benjamin lives in Los Angeles and Zürich.