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Ben and his friend made a film called Get 'Em while they were in high school. They screened the film at a local theatre in Los Gatos, CA, and a couple of hundred people turned up for the show. That project sealed Ben's future, and he decided to study Film at NYU.
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Ben's Favorites |
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| Movie: Battle of Algiers |
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| Director: Steven Sonderbergh |
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Actor: George Clooney
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Gadget: Video iPod
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Car: Prius
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| Food: House of Nanking, San Francisco |
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In Conversation with Ben Rekhi |
Film Producer, Director and Writer |
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Ben Rekhi is an upcoming film producer, director and screen writer, whose film Waterborne made its debut on Google Video in January 2006. Ben is part of Drops Entertainment, a film production company that was established in 2003.
His first feature film was Bomb the System that was followed by Waterborne and his recent one is a comic film titled CarBabes. The film is in the can and Ben plans to be traveling the film circuit with his new film.
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Growing up in Silicon Valley, Ben dabbled in creating home videos in his backyard, and by the time he was in high school he and his friend Peter Wu had managed to produce an hour-long feature film. He joined New York University's film school and during the course of his studies managed to intern with the Coen brothers production of O Brother, Where Art Thou? Ben also worked in a behind the scenes production of George Clooney's film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
Ben's ambition is to produce a full-length film on a story that he has been working for five years now. The story is centered around the garbage collectors of New York.
Did you know?
While collecting material for his story, Ben spent a few months with the garbage collectors of New York.
Cool Google Stuff
Los Gatos Weekly Times
Babes in Benland
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Films Hollywood Coen Brothers Google Video
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