Ben Shedd is an Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker and a professor of Digital Filmmaking at School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Ben has produced and directed 33 films and videos, including three OMNIMAX giant screen dome films. Prof Ben’s first independent science documentary, ‘The Flight of The Gossamer Condor’ about history’s first successful human-powered airplane, received the 1978 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject. Along with his production work, Ben has taught film/video production and business courses at six universities including his alma mater, the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts and Princeton University. He continues developing and using a new cinematic language for immersive media space he calls ‘Exploding the Frame’, describing giant screen dome media and 360° VR as “first person cinema experiences” flipping the rules of filmmaking on their head.
