SILBERFARB-FILMS produces creative videos for television, internet and independent clients. It is a full production company encompassing all aspects of production – from concept development to final deliverables. Ben Silberfarb is a writer and director as well as director of photography and video editor. His projects range from the production of feature films (Whitman Brook, www.whitmanbrookfilm.com ; Brief Reunion, www.briefreunion.com) to television commercials and everything in between. Ben’s background in environmental conservation including a Masters of Environmental Studies (Yale University), employment by The Nature Conservancy (1992-97) and The Lyme Timber Company (1999-2006) has fed a special interest in filmmaking about the outdoors. Along with nature, Ben loves bicycles and cosmological ideas of space and time.
AWARDS
- 2023 Shouldice Family Prize for Best Vermont-Made Film, Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival for “Whitman Brook” (Writer/Director).
- 2023 “Whitman Brook” (Writer/Director): Best Documentary, VTIFF’s Made Here Film Festival & Audience Choice Award, VTIFF’s Made Here Film Festival.
- 2022 New Hampshire Filmmaker of the Year for “Whitman Brook” (Writer/Director) and “Love in the Night” (Producer). New Hampshire Film Festival 2022.
- 2019 “The Hike” (Writer/Director): Jury Award for Best Thriller, Online New England Film Festival.
- 2018 “The Hike” (Writer/Director): Northeast & Quebec Regional Hawk Award for Best Screenplay, The Vermont International Film Festival; Best New Hampshire Short, Narrative, New Hampshire Film Festival.
- 2016 “Fire” (Writer/Director): Best New Hampshire Short, Narrative, New Hampshire Film Festival.
- 2015 “Quintown” (Writer/Director): Jury Award for Best Thriller, Online New England Film Festival.
- 2012 “Singularity” (Writer/Director): Short listed for the Golden Blaster Award, National Irish Science Fiction Awards.
- 2010 “Brief Reunion” (Producer/Executive Producer): Audience Choice Award, Best Narrative, Gotham Film Festival, New York City; Top Fiction Prize at the University Film and Video Association.