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Benjamin Ree

Benjamin Ree

Personal Info:

KNOWN FOR

Directing

GENDER

male

BIRTHDAY

1989-07-10(35 years old)

PLACE OF BIRTH

Oslo, Norway

ALSO KNOWN AS

Бенджамин Ри

BIOGRAPHY

Benjamin Ree (born July 10, 1989) is a Norwegian director and cinematographer of several documentaries, including Magnus (2016), The Painter and the Thief (2020), and Ibelin (2024).

Ree began making films at the age of eleven and studied Journalism at Oslo Metropolitan University. After his studies Ree worked as a freelance videojournalist for BBC and Reuters, most notably covering the 2011 Norway attacks. Ree has said in interviews that making his first feature Magnus was his film school: "There I understood that I could transfer the interviews to a universal, nonverbal cinematic language."

production

directing

writing

editing

camera