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Ben Rekhi is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. He is known for Waterborne (2005), Fun Size Horror : Volume One (2015), and The Ashram (2018). [1]
Ben Rekhi is an award-winning filmmaker of mixed Indian and American descent. After working with the Coen Brothers in the camera department of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Rekhi was hired by George Clooney to shoot the behind the scenes for "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind."
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Aug 18, 2018 · Ben Rekhi is an award-winning filmmaker of mixed Indian and American descent. After working with the Coen bros. in the camera department of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Rekhi was hired by George Clooney to shoot the behind the scenes for "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind."
- How Did The Idea For The Documentary Come About?
- What Is Your Fascination with Minorities Supporting Trump?
- Is The Process of Creating Narrative Films and Feature Documentaries similar?
- How Did People React to The Leversons’ Decision to Travel Through All 50 States?
- How Has The Feedback For The Film Been?
- What Next?
In the aftermath of the killing of Bro’s daughter, which saw hate spill over into violence, she very simply spoke about the need to have difficult conversations, and to avoid further violence. Listening to her, I wondered how someone who had suffered such an incredible tragedy could come out the other side as a voice of reason. I felt that her wisd...
After Trump won in 2016, there was a sense of denial, and a lot of us were trying to understand things we had ignored about our country. To me, the fact that 31% Latinos, 18% Muslims voted for him... it was different than the narrative that we were hearing about how this is an ‘angry white man’ problem. What we learned while filming is that a lot o...
I come from the narrative film world and this was my first feature documentary. One of the big differences is that in fiction, you have the script beforehand. In a documentary, you do all the production and then you try to shape it into a story. It was an incredibly big learning curve for me, to go through two different versions of the movie, to th...
It wasn’t an easy journey for them. They gave up everything, and still so many people doubted them along the way. What I loved about such interactions is that it shows conflict and drama, but it also shows the family’s transformation. There is a scene where they are talking to a woman who lost her baby over a racial disparity. There is a lot of con...
It’s been mixed. We’ve got messages like ‘now I can talk to my father or mother who I disagree with’ and also had some intense responses from people who are angry and don’t want to get along with the other side. We have been called a leftist film by the right and a right-wing film by the left. If you’re upsetting both sides, you are doing something...
I am pursuing two fictional projects: a film on mass shootings set in the US and another one India. It’s something I’m excited about, but I can’t talk about just yet. Details about the release of The Reunited States in India will be announced shortly
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Ben Rekhi is an award-winning filmmaker of mixed Indian and American descent. After working with the Coen Brothers in the camera department of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Rekhi was hired by George Clooney to shoot the behind the scenes for "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind."
- January 28, 1979
May 6, 2021 · “It was a recent tumultuous period in our history,” says Ben Rekhi, director of The Reunited States, a documentary about a handful of people trying to hold together an increasingly polarised America.
Dec 1, 2019 · Indian-American filmmaker Ben Rekhi has made some diverse films over the last few years, with themes ranging from spirituality to crime.
