Ben Shedd
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Biography:
Academy Award winning filmmaker Ben Shedd has been a professional film and video director, producer, and writer for 34 years. He shares a Peabody Award for the Public Television NOVA science series and received the 1978 Academy Award Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject for his film, The Flight of the Gossamer Condor, about history’s successful human powered airplane. Since 1985, Mr. Shedd has been designing, directing, and producing giant screen IMAX & OMNIMAX films, including Seasons, Tropical Rainforest, and Dancing In The Sky. His film productions have been supported by grants from the John D. and Katherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the NOVA series public television funders.
Along with his production work, Mr. Shedd has taught numerous film and digital production classes at four Universities including his alma mater, the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema/Television. Mr. Shedd recently spent six years as a Senior Research Scholar at Princeton University’s Department of Computer Science where he researched effective interface designs for future wall-size computer screens. Mr. Shedd is on the Board of Boise’s media access station TVTV Channel 11 and is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science.