Benjamin Craig started his career in media at the tender age of just 18 months when he was cast as the new child of the main family in "Certain Women", a popular 1970s Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) soap opera. After leaving the show aged three, Craig spent the remainder of his childhood growing up in Perth, Western Australia.
Always more comfortable behind the camera than in front of it, Craig spent much of his teens working backstage in theatre before starting a media production degree at Curtin University of Technology in 1990. Graduating in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts (English), Craig divided his time between developing short film projects and working in the fledgling new media industry before moving to Europe in 1996.
An early advocate of the cross-media opportunities for both storytellers and marketeers, Craig has consulted with a range of top London digital marketing agencies. In 2007, Craig completed a Masters in Producing Film & Television at Royal Holloway, University of London, and is now an award-winning filmmaker whose credits include "Waiting for Gorgo", "Sparks and Embers", "L'Ardennais", and "The Circle".
In addition to his work in theatre, film, television, and new media, Craig is an accomplished freelance writer. He is the author of the leading film festival travel books, Cannes - A Festival Virgin's Guide and Sundance - A Festival Virgin's Guide and has also freelanced for a variety of magazines including Vogue, GQ, and Condé Nast Traveller, and is the founder and former editor-in-chief of one of the web's oldest filmmaking resources, filmmaking.net.
Benjamin Craig is currently chief executive of cross-media production company Cinemagine Media Limited and resides in London.
Posts by Benjamin Craig
- RED Announces the New Monstro 8K VV Full-Frame Sensor for WEAPON Cameras
- Blocker App Brings Augmented Reality Shot-Planning to Your iPhone
- 12 Angry Men- A Lesson in Staging
- How to Make a Blockbuster Movie Trailer
- Clint Eastwood Gives the Cinema Masterclass at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival
- Behind the Scenes With the New RED Weapon 8K Camera on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2
- The Economist Thinks We've Reached 'Peak Indie'
- Pixar in a Box - Free 9 Part Course in Storytelling
- The 24 Best Movie Posters of 2016
- How to spot a scam film festival
- Kodak to offer free filmstock to Kickstarer filmmakers
- Review: Directing Motion Tour with Vincent Laforet Bundle
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens VFX Reel
- Just When You Thought They Were Out... Kodak Launches Super 8 Revival
- Tarantino and Team Talk About Shooting for 70mm on The Hateful Eight
- Birdman and the Secret of 'Continuous' Takes
- Manage Collaboration During Post More Effectively with Everytime
- Callsheet Operator - Call sheets for the 21st century
- CGI and Practical Visual Effects of Mad Max: Fury Road
- Composing movement, Kurosawa style
- How to be a Filmmaker
- The Sound of Interstellar
- Effective Scenes - Silence of the Lambs
- FEAR ON FILM: Landis, Carpenter, Cronenberg!
- Top 10 Most Effective Editing Moments of All Time
- Game of Thrones S04 VFX Reel
- Michael Bay and 'Bayham'
- Matt Damon and Ben Affleck Want You For Project Greenlight
- COMPETITION: YouTube and D&AD Launch 'Next Director' Award
- How an Actor's Face Changes With Lighting
- New Mo-Cap Rig Renders Scenes in Real-Time
- Interview with VFX Pioneer Dennis Muren
- D16 Bolex 'Digital 16mm' Camera Available to Pre-Order
- The Sound of All is Lost
- Film School Thru Commentaries
- Movie Poster Cliches
- The Changing Shape of Cinema: The History of Aspect Ratio
- The future of cinema and TV: It's game over for the hi-res hype
- Director Kory Martin Juul Creates CG Feature Almost Single-Handedly
- Zach Braff, Kickstarter, and Financing Your Film For Free
- The Roles of a Producer
- Kodak's 2013 Student Scholarship Program
- Top 5 - Crowd Funding Mistakes
- Have Seamless Green Screen Sets Finally Arrived?
- COMPETITION: Nokia + Music Video + Sundance London = Cash Prizes!
- How to be Quentin Tarantino
- The Sound of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
- HFR Filmmaking with Hollywood FX Pioneer Douglas Trumbull... from the 1980s
- Technicolor Launches 'CineStyleT Color Assist', an Entry-Level Colour-Correction/Grading Tool
- The Sound and Music of 'The Dark Knight Rises'
- Recommended Read: 'My Indecision is Final' by Jake Eberts
- GreenlightMyMovie Wants to Get Your Work In Front of Hollywood
- Tom Cruise Wants to Help You Make Movies With Your Mobile
- Start-up Riftlabs Preps 'KICK', a Revolutionary Video/Photo Light
- COMPETITION: 'Imagination Series' with Oscar-Winning Screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher, Tribeca Film Festival, and Bombay Sapphire
- The Sound of Prometheus
- REDucation X - Learn to Shoot RED, the 'Deep-End' Way
- SeeFlik Offers Biannual Filmmaking Competition... With Cash Prizes!
- Greeting Cards for Movie People
- How Long Should Your Short Be?
- 'The Hobbit', Shooting with 48(!) RED Cameras... at 48fps
- Creative Minds Cannes Internships
- An Innovative Approach to Royalty-Free Music and Sound FX for Your Project
- The Hollywood Reporter 2011 Film School Rankings
- Film London's Market Place Live: From Inception to Exhibition in 90 Minutes
- Six Key Areas in Which Film Festivals Need To Up Their Game
- Screenplay Competitions - Are they worth the entry fee?
- Review: Pocket Call Sheet for iPhone/iPad
- The filmmaking.net Links Directory is Now Live!
- Trailer Festival 2011 Now Accepting Submissions
- Competition - make a part of Stephen Gyllenhaal's next film
- Ambitious Internet TV start-up looking for indie film content
- Product placement app launches, promotes 'scripts first' policy
- Free Cinematography Tutorials
- Book Review: The Guerilla Filmmaker's Pocketbook
- Time Warner Cable and IFC Want to Take You to Sundance 2011
- Interview with Legendary Documentary-Maker Ken Burns
- New HD Art Channel Looking For Experimental Films
- Really Interesting Interview with Producer Gary Kurtz (Star Wars, Dark Crystal..)
- Phillips and Ridley Scott challenge filmmakers to 'Tell It Your Way'
- Win Storage Gear and €5000 with Hitachi G-Technology
- Get Your Short Factual Film Funded by Don't Panic
- Video: Working with 3D - The Sony World Cup Commercial
- Focus 2010 - World Film Market Trends
- Book Review: Think Outside of the Box-Office
- 100 Prints launches new resource for British indie filmmakers
- Show Me The Money - European Audiovisual Observatory Cannes Workshop
- Win a Free Production Kit with EDIUS
- Video Hosting Site Quality Comparison
- One Fat Cigar Launch Competition
- Beware of scam 'film festivals' and dubious competitions.
- Focus 2009 - World Film Market Trends
- Reinvent a 1980s TV Commercial for Riunite and Win $10,000
- New Short Film Distribution Guide
- Focus 2008 - World Film Market Trends
- Review: 'Movie Photos' by Alex Bailey
- Love Linux? Make a video and win a trip to Tokyo!
- How Territorialisation is Driving Consumer Piracy
- What Radiohead's 'Name Your Price' Download Experiment Means for Filmmakers
- Cannes Market Focus 2007
- The Cannes Film Festival For Beginners
- Get Published - Write for Filmmaking.net!