Benjamin Hosking
Benjamin Hosking is a Los Angeles-based film director, currently attending the American Film Institute Conservatory for his MFA.
His films touch on mental health and masculine vulnerability, as well as parenting children with mental illness.
06/03/2021
Hey all, we switched from Kickstarter to the American Film Institute's own donation page for my thesis film, AND I MISS YOU LIKE A LITTLE KID, which deals with a q***r man's experience of domestic abuse during COVID lockdown. See instructions on this page for how to donate. We're at 84% of our fundraising goal. Thank you all for your support!
https://www.andimissyoulikealittlekid.com/donate
Donate — And I Miss You Like a Little Kid At the American Film Institute Conservatory (the #1 graduate film school in America according to Deadline and the Hollywood Reporter), we make our films with professional crews and at industry standards. All donations go toward making the highest quality film and maintaining a safe set for our cast....
21/02/2021
What a bright eyed child I was. My first day photos from AFI. What a bright eyed adult I have become. Thank you
04/09/2020
Stop criminalizing mental illness, stop criminalizing being black. Daniel Prude’s senseless murder at the hands of incompetent, racist, ignorant cops is a reminder of why divesting mental health from the purview of law enforcement would be great. Send a psychologist, psychiatric nurse, emt, social worker... not a guy with a gun who claims acute psychosis was a P*P overdose. People with mental illness are almost never a danger, but they are frequently in danger because of ignorance and stigma.
23/08/2020
Pleased to share that my current graduate school, the American Film Institute Conservatory, is the #1 film school in the USA according to The Hollywood Reporter, the equivalent of the US News and World Report for film.
https://www.afi.com/news/afi-named-top-film-school/
AFI Named Top Film School We couldn’t be more proud of our Fellows, Faculty and Alumni! This week, The Hollywood Reporter – which has established itself as the “go to” list for the “Top 25 Film Schools in America” – released their ranking for 2020 and named AFI Conservatory as the nation’s top film school. Un...
16/08/2020
Wrote my first film essay on Buster's Mal Heart, a surrealist mystery written & directed by Sarah Adina Smith - Special thanks to my AFI directing instructor Marie Jamora for sharing this film with my class.
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https://www.benjaminhosking.com/hosking-thoughts/2020/8/16/busters-mal-heart
Rousseauvian Escape and Self-Explanation: Personal Analysis of Buster’s Mal Heart — Benjamin Hosking Jonah, played by Rami Malek, sojourns against the modern machine in Sarah Adina Smith’s unsettling surrealist mystery Buster’s Mal Heart . As his world grows increasingly untenable, he loses his mind to conspiracy and his family to murder, becoming the titular Buster.
15/06/2020
In light of today’s Supreme Court ruling in support of q***r rights in the US, here are some stills from “Kill Your Darlings,” the last I directed before Covid. It’s a ***r set during a &D game.
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Produced by
Cinematography by
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Production Design by Danna Maui Mcdonald
If you’d like to watch, DM me for the screener. @ Los Angeles, California
10/04/2020
MOTHER SAVAGE: A mother struggles to keep her recovering addict son and a pharmaceutical executive from fighting during dinner at her B&B.
An first year
DM for private screener if interested in viewing. (Co-Writer/Director)
17/02/2020
Behind the scenes.
07/02/2020
From the set of Kill Your Darlings, written by Arryn Dennard and directed by me. Wonderful experience on this AFI Conservatory 1st Year Film.
18/01/2020
"I'd only believe in a God who could dance, and the one we've got can't boogie for s**t."
Watch my first film, "Dancing on the Yellow Edges," on Vimeo.
Dancing on the Yellow Edges A short film about brotherhood and bipolar disorder. Writer/Director/Producer: Benjamin Hosking Director of Photography/Producer: Ben Haven Taylor Actors: Joshua…
12/01/2020
The opposite of depression is dancing with someone you love. *Still from “Dancing on the Yellow Edges” (2017)*
05/01/2020
Over the past three years, I directed four shorts about mental health, family, and masculinity. Watch the preview reel here: http://ow.ly/6g6F50xNy7e and comment/react below!
Benjamin Hosking Reel 2017-2019 A collection of clips from the films I've made since 2017. Music: "Life in a Glasshouse" by Radiohead
05/01/2020
And here's the reel for 2017-2019, the three years I've been a filmmaker. Enjoy! If there's any moment or film you're interested in learning more about, comment below.
Benjamin Hosking Reel 2017-2019 A collection of clips from the films I've made since 2017. Music: "Life in a Glasshouse" by Radiohead
03/01/2020
03/01/2020
Welcome everyone to my artist page! I will be posting my films, writing, and photography here. Like and follow for updates. My official reel will be live in a couple days. In the meantime, here's a still from my 2019 film "Better Off."
17/12/2019