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 (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.