Benjamin Niles
Benjamin Niles is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. His current film, Note By Note, has won top honors and has provided an inspiring and educational teaching tool. It will air on PBS in the fall of 2009 and was recently added to the prestigious American Documentary Showcase, screening at American embassies worldwide.
His first documentary, Josh Joplin: Better Days, about the recording industry and the role of the singer-songwriter, received industry acclaim. During his fifteen years as a graphic designer, Benjamin directed and produced photoshoots, trailers, commercials, and print campaigns for commercial and entertainment clients including Atlantic Records, The Nantucket Film Festival, and the Jacob Burns Film Center. In his years in the record industry, Benjamin created album packages for Collective Soul, Jewel, Jon Brion, celebrated box-sets for Phish and George Carlin, and packages and identities for jazz musicians Cyrus Chestnut, James Carter, and Henry Butler. A graduate of the University of Georgia at Athens, Benjamin attended UGA’s prestigious Cortona program, an intensive fine arts study-abroad program located in Cortona, Italy.
