Benjamin Stuart Thompson
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Benjamin Stuart Thompson (born September 21, 1959) is an American director/producer who has worked in documentary films, television broadcasts, theater productions, studio feature films, and live, new media events interconnecting globally networked venues.
Life and career[edit]
Thompson's grandmother was Gloria Stuart, best known for her role as Old Rose in the 1997 film Titanic. His grandfather was screenwriter Arthur Sheekman, a close friend and the key writer for Groucho Marx and the Marx Brothers.
Thompson received his BFA in directing for the stage from University of California, Los Angeles.[citation needed] Thompson was the founder and creative director of The L.A.TEST Stage.[citation needed]
Thompson is the director/producer of The Ranchero, a lifestyle television show broadcasting in the US and Canada on JLTV.[citation needed] He is also the director/producer of a series of one-hour television specials.[citation needed]
Thompson is director/producer of a feature documentary, now in post production, entitled Secret Life of Old Rose, The Life and Art of Gloria Stuart, about his grandmother, featuring interviews with directors James Cameron, Jon Landau, actresses Frances Fisher and Suzy Amis Cameron, among others.[1]
Large-Scale event media[edit]
Thompson has worked to develop large-scale, multi-venue, group to group interaction for sporting events, live theatrical events,[2] musical television events, as well as new formats for networked education.[3]
He has been a guest lecturer for multi-venue event media at both UCLA in the School of Theater, Film, and Television and UC San Diego in the Theatre and Dance Department.[4]
AVANTI Lab[edit]
[The AVANTI Lab] is the "Advanced Video & Audio Networked Theater Initiative" that develops and produces new content formats for live event media.[citation needed] Thompson founded the Lab, and to honor the memory of his grandmother Gloria Stuart, Thompson initiated the AVANTI Award for Envisioning New Possibilities.[citation needed] In 2012, the AVANTI was presented to Suzy Amis Cameron by Jon Landau at a ceremony at UCLA. The next award is to be presented to Peter Buffett.[citation needed]
External links[edit]
- Benjamin Stuart Thompson on IMDb
- The Secret Life of Old Rose at the Internet Movie Database
- The Ranchero at JLTV.com
References[edit]
- ↑ http://www.smgov.net/Content.aspx?id=30886
- ↑ https://articles.latimes.com/2002/nov/10/entertainment/ca-hart10
- ↑ http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/general/01-25DigitalHumanities.asp
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-10-03. Retrieved 2013-10-13. Unknown parameter
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