Benjamin Steger

Filmmaker Benjamin Steger has been making experimental, documentary, and narrative fiction films since the 1990s. His documentary work features lyrical, empathetic character studies that explore the core of the human experience. His feature length documentary, Stage Four: A Love Story (2015), was awarded “Best International Feature Length Documentary” at the 2016 DOCFeed Documentary Festival in the Netherlands and “Best Feature Length Documentary” at the 69th Annual University Film and Video Association International Conference. He also directed Left Field (2009), a feature length documentary about an oddball community of artists, musicians and misfits that coalesce around the grade school game of kickball, which screened at the Austin Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Dallas Videofest, DocuFest Atlanta, Kansas International Film Festival and others. Great Bend (2006), a short narrative fiction written and directed by Ben, screened at the Sedona International Film Festival, Long Island Film Festival, and others. Noted film critic Robert Butler selected it as a "Critic's Pick" for the 2007 Kansas City Filmmaker's Jubilee.