Canada / Sweden

Born in Sweden in 1982, Benjamin Taft is a filmmaker, photographer, editor and motion designer based in Vancouver, Canada. Having joined forces with Teddy Goitom while at MTV, Benjamin travelled across the globe for clients such as H&M, Puma football, Canadian Olympic Committee, Grolsch Block Party, Pilsner Urquell, Peroni, Santa Maria, Marcus Samuelson, UR Swedish broadcasting, BKW & MTV Sweden. He co-directed the documentary Stocktown X: South Africa and the Afripedia series along with Teddy Goitom and Senay Berhe. His first feature length documentary film The Sandwich Nazi, premiered at SXSW where it was nominated for the Documentary Grand Jury Prize and went on to play at Hot Docs and many other international film festivals.

Filmography

Burning Man Video Postcard (2010)
Stocktown X: South Africa (2011)
The Sandwich Nazi (2015)
Afripedia: Angola (2014)
Afripedia: Ghana (2014)
Afripedia: Kenya (2014)
Afripedia: Senegal (2014)
Afripedia: South Africa (2014)
Afripedia x New York (2016)
Holding On to the Farm (2018)