Ben Shedd has directed and produced or co-produced 34 films and videos, co-writing 20 of these productions. SPI denotes films/videos or DVDs produced through Shedd Productions, Inc.
MAKING MAGIC Dome Production on Special Effects Creative Director. Working/Teaching/Researching with Digital High Resolution Dome ImmersiveScreens – 2020 Peter Wallenberg Professor of Visual Science Communication & Producer/Director/Writer/Editor – Exploding the Frame at Linköping University and the VisualiseringsC Science Center, Norrköping, Sweden
Working/Teaching/Researching with Digital High Resolution Dome Immersive Screens – Professor & Producer/Director/Editor – Exploding the Frame at the School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Seven minute Hot Air Balloon digital documentary mockup and several animated title sequences and Shedd Productions, Inc. company logo using After Effects software. Created while auditing After Effects course taught by Daewhan Cho at Boise State University.
STAR WAITERS Produced by Mitch Kohler, Jesse Cordtz, Patty Terraberry, Rachel Cherny and Ben Shedd Executive Producers: Nancy Berry Make-A-Wish Foundation, Teresa Poppen One Stone, Inc., Ben Shedd Shedd Productions, Inc. – Make-A-Wish Foundation of Idaho Boise, ID
Green is the Color of Money Produced by Ben Shedd & Jennifer Isenhart – Director – SPI with WideEye Productions On Location at the USGBC LEED Platinum rated Banner Bank Building, Boise, ID. Production Crew Link
Working/Teaching/Researching with Wall-Size Digital High Resolution Screen Demo Video – Producer/Director/Editor – SPI & Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Gossamer Condor Smithsonian Institution National Air & Space Museum Kiosk Video Produced by Ben Shedd and Paul MacCready – Editor – SPI – Albuquerque, NM
Commercial Spots for Senate Primary Campaign Producer/Director – SPI – Albuquerque,
Dancing in the Sky (870 Large Format) Produced by Ben Shedd and Patrick Murphy – Director – SPI with On The Road Productions, Albuquerque, NM
Fort Worth Flyover II (Imax®/Omnimax1570) Produced by Marian White & Ben Shedd – Director – SPI – Albuquerque, NM
Tropical Rainforest (Imax/Omnimax1570) Produced by Marian White and Ben Shedd – Director/Concept – SPI – Albuquerque, NM
Meet Ellen Stohl – SPI – Los Angeles, CA – Produced by Ben Shedd & Mitchell Block – Director
Seasons (Imax/Omnimax1570) – Graphic Films, Los Angeles, CA – Producer/Director
Nuclear Age Education in the Classroom for Los Angeles School District, Produced by Lynn Greeenberg & Ben Shedd, Los Angeles, CA and On Location
Macintosh Computer/VideoWorks Animations on kiosks displayed at SIGGRAPH 1986
US Constitution Special starring Richard Dreyfuss [Development Director], James/Dreyfuss Productions Los Angeles, CA – Consultant
Songwriter-Making The Music with Willie Nelson & Kris Kristofferson Produced by Ben Shedd and Conrad Schoeffter for Tri-Star Pictures for HBO – Director – SPI – On Location in Austin, TX & Los Angeles, CA
The Southwest, for The National Geographic Society – Heliotrope Productions, Cambridge, MA
Public Service Announcement commercials – Jason Robards on Alzheimer’s Disease, Producer Director – SPI – Los Angeles, CA
The Homefront PBS Special/USC Department of History/NEH Grant Film – Interview Director
The Dream of Don Guadalupe with Alejandro Rey and Edward James Olmos – California Dreams PBS Series Produced by Ben Shedd and Patrick Griffen – Director – KOCE TV PBS, Huntington Beach, CA
Toxic Waste Disposal in the Oceans – Environmental Protection Agency, On Location USA
America At Thanksgiving Live, PBS/Image Audio, San Francisco, CA and 4 other locations across the USA – Live Segment Producer/Director – National Public Television Broadcast – First USA mutli-city live video broadcast.
Television Episodes – Paulist Productions, Los Angeles, CA – AD
Wack Attack – Eddie Smith Productions, Los Angeles, CA – AD
Commercials – Jeff Newby Films – Wilson Sports, Scott Tissue, Era Detergent – Producer/AD
Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry with Roger Steffens Series – Director – Steffens Shedd Poetry Films – SPI – Los Angeles, CA – 3 film series
The Flight of the Gossamer Condor – Produced by Jacqueline Phillips Shedd and Ben Shedd – Director/Writer/Co-Editor – SPI – Los Angeles, CA. Production Crew Link
Cosmos Series with Carl Sagan PBS [Development Producer]
NOVA® Series PBS – WGBH TV, Boston, MA – 6 one hour TV science documentaries – The Sunspot Mystery – On Location throughout USA – Producer/Director – Will The Fishing Have to Stop? – On Location throughout USA – Producer/Director – The Renewable Tree – On Location throughout USA – Producer/Director – Why Do Birds Sing? – On Location throughout USA – Producer/Director – The First Signs of Washoe – On Location throughout USA – Associate Producer – Where Did The Colorado Go? – On Location throughout USA – Associate Producer on the first program for then brand new series NOVA on PBS 1973
Mars Minus Myth – Churchill Films, Los Angeles, CA – USC Cinema/TV Thesis Film -Producer/Director/Designer/Editor
Turn A Handle, Flip A Switch – Churchill Films, Los Angeles, CA – Producer/Director/Editor
Strip Mine Trip – Churchill Films, Los Angeles, CA – Producer/Director/Aerial Camera/Editor
People Who Fight Pollution – Churchill Films, Los Angeles, CA – Editor
People Who Fix Things – Churchill Films, Los Angeles, CA – Editor
Numerous student film productions at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts and at San Francisco State University’s Cinema Department, ranging from live action narratives to documentaries to animation and stop motion movies, including making a 10 second film using 240 frames of 16mm black film stock and a safety pin to scratch animating images and sync sound on the piece of celluloid.
Actor – 7 dramatic narrative films, Robert Shedd, Director/Producer. Knights of the Square Table [Prince Valiant], Tales of the Mountain Men [Tom Fitzpatrick], Six Gun Justice [Wyatt Earp], French Foreign Legion [Actor/Editor], South Seas Pearl Divers, Dogfight [Baron von Richthofen], and The Frontiersman [Actor/Special Effects]