In 2010 Ben Brand graduated as a director from the Dutch Film Academy in
Amsterdam. His very first commercial for the 'Young Director Award' festival in
Cannes won several awards including the Golden Hammer in Latvia, the Silver
Drum in Slovenia, a Cresta Award in New York, got nominated twice for the
Cannes Lions and gained over 50.000.000 views worldwide.
 

In the time that followed Ben directed multiple commercials at Caviar
Amsterdam as well as two shorts; 'Life is Beautiful' (3D animation) and ‘97%’ (Live
action). These films screened at over 250 international film festivals, gaining more
than 5.000.000 views online and winning numerous awards. 97% also represented
the Netherlands in the live action short film category at the Oscars (2014).
 

In 2017 Ben's debut feature film ‘Find this dumb little bitch and throw her into a
river’ received multiple awards during it's worldwide festival tour including a
SPECIAL MENTION at the Warsaw international film festival, the NEW DIRECTORS
AWARD at the Kosmorama film festival in Norway and the BEST NARATIVE FEATURE
AWARD at the Greenwhich international film festival in North America.
 

Currently Ben is directing commercials all over the world for brands like Nike,
Bentley, Gilette and the Premier League. His latest shorts are Sea You, a short
animation film for Pathé Cinema's in the Netherlands and Re-Entry, a live action
film based on a short story by Andy Weir, author of the bestseller 'The Martian’.

And last but not least there's also a new feature film 'This time first' in

development with Amsterdam based production company Doxy/Fixy.