Contact:
benvk@benkadie.com
425.256.1130
education
University of Southern California
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BFA Film & Television Production
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Presidential Scholar
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Thematic Option honors programs
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Senior Thesis film selected for USC First Look Film Festival
awards and honors
U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts 2013 (one of two in nation for film)
Overall Winner - Newport Beach Film Fest. Youth Showcase
Best Student Film - Chicago International Movies & Music Festival
Best Emerging Filmmaker - Greenville International Film Festival
Best Film - Short. Sweet. Film Festival
Sixteen shorts have screened at 200+ festivals around the world, earning 5 top festival awards and 38 top student awards.
skills
software
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Adobe (Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, Audition, InDesign)
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AVID / ProTools
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MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point)
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Cinema 4D
selected work experience
visual effects artist
Hollywood Undead / Day of the Dead
dir. Spence Nicolson, Anthem Films
Refused / Elektra — Anthem Films
The Wild Party / When I Get Older
dir. Tim Hendrix, Anthem Films
Practice Safe Sun PSA — Trisha Paytas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i29vV3tqlew
Anastasia / Staring At The Sun — Anthem Films
Material Pictures (Tobey Maguire)
Creative Development Intern
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Designed graphics for pitch packets for new projects
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Wrote coverage on specs and novels
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Researched true stories for development
director of photography
"Darling," short film by Joy Sunday, 2017
"Credits," web series by Alexandra Kyllingstad and Alex Burns, 2015-16
"Vision of a Blind Man," short film by Brandon Winters, 2015
"Letters from Saigon," short film by Alex Ramsey, 2015
"Good Art," short film by Tyler Brown, 2013
"This is Halloween" music video by Carter Shults, 2014
cameras
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Canon DSLRs
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Blackmagic
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Sony F-series, A7s