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Ben Proudfoot (born 29 October 1990) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker. He directed The Queen of Basketball, winner of the 2021 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject; as well as co-director with Kris Bowers of the short documentary film A Concerto Is a Conversation, which was an Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 93rd Academy Awards in 2021. He and Bowers were also winners of the 2024 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject for The Last Repair Shop.
Most Popular Ben Proudfoot Trailers
Total trailers found: 47
02 June 2015
Part of the Life's Work series. Rust is a portrait of master iron artist Gordon Kennedy.
11 November 2013
A portrait of master woodworker and Vietnam veteran Eric Hollenbeck
15 May 2015
Part of the Life's Work series. Turns is a portrait of master woodturner Steven Kennard.
03 September 2021
Part of the Almost Famous series. It was the late 1990s, and 3,000 young actors around the world were scouted for the role of a lifetime.
18 October 2017
A documentary love letter to Lisbon, Portugal.
15 April 2015
Part of the Life's Work series. Mother Earth is a portrait of Louise Pentz, a production potter turned feminist sculptor.
16 February 2024
In a warehouse in the heart of Los Angeles, a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople maintain more than 80,000 student musical instruments, the largest remaining workshop in America of its kind.
17 December 2019
Part of the Almost Famous series. In the mid-1960s, four teenagers from Liverpool were changing the face of pop music.
21 March 2025
A record in 35mm film of the first drenching rain on Los Angeles after the devastation of the wildfires.
03 September 2022
Film reveals the true origins of The French Laundry, which Schmitt shaped into one of the world’s great restaurants before selling it to the now-legendary Thomas Keller .
20 March 2021
In 1992, at the height of the AIDS pandemic, activist Terence Alan Smith made a historic bid for president of the United States as his drag queen persona Joan Jett Blakk.
25 April 2022
Oscar®-winning director Ben Proudfoot brings the inspiring untold story of UNICEF to life through first-person interviews and UNICEF’s never-before-seen archive.
02 April 2018
Fifty years later, the real Melvin Dismukes chronicles his first-hand experience of the infamous Algiers Motel Incident, for which he was wrongly charged with first-degree murder in 1967.
13 June 2019
A world-renowned pastry chef, reflects on his relationship with his deceased father Milton Abel Sr., famed Kansas City jazz musician.
06 March 2011
During World War II, Fred Conrad was taken from a troop train in Europe and sent home to Canada to use his pre-war chicken raising skills to stop war-time food shortages.
24 November 2020
A virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer tracks his family's lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather from Jim Crow Florida to the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
11 January 2021
Part of the Cause of Life series. Angela Chaddlesone McCarthy was a teenage mother raised on a Native American reservation who overcame great odds to become a Kiowa tribe legislator in Oklahoma.
05 September 2025
93-year-old documentarian Chris Hesse—personal cinematographer to forgotten African icon Kwame Nkrumah—races against blindness and time to rescue and repatriate a secret trove of over 1,300 films that captured the birth of African independence in the fifties and sixties.
10 June 2021
Part of the Almost Famous series. She was arguably the greatest women's basketball player. She won three national trophies; she played in the ’76 Olympics; she was drafted to the NBA.
20 August 2019
In the late 1960s, Haddon Salt built a fast-food empire. Then Kentucky Fried Chicken came knocking.
21 December 2020
Part of Cause of Life series. Rosary Castro-Olega was a retired nurse who returned to the frontlines to fight the virus, ultimately becoming one of the Filipino-American nurses who were disproportionately killed by the virus.
18 October 2024
A devoted Philadelphia Phillies fan inspires his city to give a struggling shortstop a game-changing standing ovation in this rousing short documentary.
21 December 2020
Part of Cause of Life series. A hard-working bricklayer from the projects, Humberto Trujillo helped build the main Phoenix post office — and rose to become his city’s first Hispanic postmaster.
28 December 2020
Part of the Cause of Life series. When his son-in-law was killed in a tragic car crash, World War II veteran Calvin Haworth became a surrogate parent and an activist against drunk driving in Minnesota.
04 January 2021
Part of the Cause of Life series. A devout Christian, Jerry Givens was Virginia’s chief executioner, before he became an advocate of abolishing the death penalty.
23 January 2026
Now 93, Martin Luther King Jr.’s lawyer and speechwriter reflects on the personal cost and surprising truths of making history, offering an intimate insider’s view of the Civil Rights Movement.
23 June 2022
Told by her daughter Wendy, MINK! chronicles the remarkable Patsy Takemoto Mink, a Japanese American from Hawai'i who became the first woman of color elected to the U.
01 December 2016
A feature documentary set in Kigali, Rwanda, the epicenter of the genocide that left a million dead two decades earlier.
16 December 2019
Part of the Almost Famous series. Kim Hill was a rising singer when she met a young rapper named will.
24 July 2021
Part of the Almost Famous series. Jocelyn Bell was a graduate student at Cambridge in 1967 when she pushed through the skepticism from her superiors to make one of the greatest astrophysical discoveries of the twentieth century.
24 August 2022
Part of the Almost Famous series. As an investigative reporter, Jason Berry exposed the church’s systematic cover-up of sexual abuse.
14 March 2026
Jarrett Harper and his younger brother Baylon share raw memories of abuse in LA's foster system, their unshakeable bond tested when the elder takes violent revenge on their abuser and faces life behind bars.
10 June 2024
The Final Copy of Ilon Sprecht is an intimate deathbed account of the unsung advertising genius who coined L'Oréal's iconic "Because I'm Worth It" slogan in 1971, a four-word feminist manifesto that, against all odds, changed advertising forever.
18 December 2019
Part of the Almost Famous series. In 1963, Ed Dwight Jr. was poised to be NASA’s first African-American astronaut, until suddenly he wasn’t.
19 August 2023
A documentary about how the right digital tools in the right hands altered one man’s life for the better.
27 May 2015
Part of the Life's Work series. Ladybug is a portrait of Elizabeth Goluch, a metalworker whose art solely focuses on the overlooked world of insects.
06 June 2025
Dr. Sheena Favors must choose between city life or staying in rural Georgia to provide vital maternal care, following Doc Hollywood’s real-life inspiration, Dr.
07 June 2024
Mary McGee became the first American woman to race motorcycles. Mary’s pioneering journey of conquering sexism and her own fears paved the way for the next chapter in motorsports.
01 July 2018
Mike Rosenberg’s story of how he founded the revolutionary software development and artificial intelligence firm, Catalyte.
08 December 2011
McManus & Morgan is the oldest (and once most prosperous) paper shop in Los Angeles. Aardvark Letterpress is a family-run printing business dating back to the 1940s.
18 August 2017
Bill Durden fell off his boat while fishing 25 miles off of Florida’s Gulf Coast. What happens next is hard to believe.
27 February 2019
Boxing gym owner Joe Buckner recalls his troubling history and how that's shaped him into the man he is today.
24 October 2018
Memories of the first World War told by an elderly man who remembers moments from the past while he wanders around his Nova Scotia farm.
21 April 2015
Part of the Life's Work series. In an industry forever dominated by men, Heather Lawson defied expectations and stereotypes to become the first and last female trained to be a production stone mason in Canada.
15 September 2017
A veteran glassmaker explains his work in avant-garde stained glass designs.
22 May 2015
Part of the Life's Work series. Fibre & Wood is a portrait of felting artist Sanna Rahola and woodcarver Douglas Drdul, who have formed a harmonious partnership as artists and as a couple.
01 January 2015
Renowned Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha prints his newest work,”ZOOT SOOT” at Aardvark Letterpress.
