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Mark Benjamin
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Mark Benjamin

American documentary filmmaker

Mark Benjamin (born 1947) is an American documentary filmmaker best known for his Peabody Award-winning, Sundance TV series Brick City and the feature film Slam. His most recent television series, Ocean Warriors aired on Animal Planet in 2016.2

From Wikipedia’s article on Mark Benjamin (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born 1947.1

About

In 2018, Benjamin co-directed, with Marc Levin, the feature documentary Chasing the Thunder, which follows Sea Shepherd Conservation Society captains during a 110-day, 10,000-nautical-mile pursuit of the poaching vessel Thunder from Antarctica to West Africa. The film premiered at EarthxFilm in 2018 and had a wider streaming release on Discovery+ in 2021.

In 2025, Benjamin co-directed, with Katie Carpenter, the documentary Fatal Watch, which investigates the deaths and disappearances of fisheries observers monitoring the international tuna industry and examines broader issues of over-fishing and transparency in commercial fishing. The film premiered on March 21, 2025, at the Sonoma International Film Festival and screened on March 24, 2025, at the DC Environmental Film Festival. It was covered in interviews on Radio New Zealand and Mongabay, and received a Certificate of Merit in the Donald Gosling Award for Best Audio-Visual Production category at The Maritime Foundation's 2025 Maritime Media Awards.

Fatal Watch official website

Over his career, Benjamin's work has also received multiple duPont–Columbia Awards and Emmy Awards, and Ocean Warriors won the Best Series award at the Jackson Wild Media Awards. Chasing the Thunder screened in more than 200 cities worldwide and was named a finalist for the United Nations' World Wildlife Day Film Showcase: Living Oceans.

From Wikipedia’s article on Mark Benjamin, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2

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Occupation: film director, cinematographer.4

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