C R E A T I V E
Writer | Director
[screen + stage]
Tel Benjamin is an AACTA award-winning actor, screenwriter and director based in Sydney, Australia.
His debut short film Noah premiered at the LA Comedy Festival 2015. Tel’s follow-up films are: Ladylike, (AACTA Social Shorts Winner Best Comedy, Audience Award Winner at Sydney Underground Film Festival 2017, Audience & Best Performance Award Winner at Freshflix Film Festival 2018, Best International Film Award at Canadian International Comedy Film Festival, and Setaceous (Fantastic Fest 2017, A Night of Horror Film Festival 2017, Horror Show Hotdog Film Festival 2017, Portland International Film Festival 2018, Chattanooga Film Festival 2018, Way Down Film Festival 2018). Setaceous was distributed through horror streaming platform ALTER. In 2018 he completed an ABC & Create NSW funded pilot for his virtual reality mini-series, The Obscure.
He has also written and directed commercial content through his production comapny, Chekhov’s Gun, for Netflix and Urban Walkabout, and has collaborated in the development of various projects with production companies such as CBS and WETA.
Tel has a slate of television and feature projects currently in development. His feature film, Mad Extravagant City, currently in post-production.
Tel holds an Advanced Diploma of Performing Arts from Actors’ Centre Australia 2014.
Website - www.chekhovsgunpictures.com