• Uprising!

    Directed by Ben Hansford
    USA | 15 minutes |

When the robot apocalypse arrives -- and humanity finds itself being tea-bagged, dry-humped, and kill-shotted out of existence -- the fate of the world rests in the hands of a gaming super-nerd named Bernie Meckler. But he's got bigger problems.

In competition for Best Comedy Short

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film details

Director: Ben Hansford
Producers: James Heth, Polina Schlicht, Paul Heth, Michael Schlicht
Screenwriter: Ben Hansford
Cinematographers: Andrew Turman
Editor: John Alan Thompson, Nick Wenger
Music: Jacob Yoffee
Cast: Meaghan Rath, Ramona Young, John Gemberling, Chris Witaske
Country: USA
Language: English
Year: 2019
Running Time: 15 minutes
Primary Company: Big Idea LA
Contact Email: ben@benhansford.com

director biography

Ben is an award-winning director born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised on a steady diet of film, fine arts, music, and Dungeons & Dragons. Given his not-so-hidden passions of robots, film-making, and more robots -- Ben taught himself 3D software, and started filming everything he could. He now lives in Los Angeles, but don't hold that against him.

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