Joshua Bennett
Joshua Bennett
startbeatmedia.com
Morristown, NJ
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Description

Emmy & Peabody Award-winning Producer/Director with 15+ years of experience in premium documentary and television production. Extensive global production background—filmed in 35+ countries across all 7 continents. Expertise includes creative development, field direction, story producing, and impact campaign strategy.

Skilled in managing large crews, complex logistics, and multi-platform storytelling for HBO, CNN, PBS, Netflix, Hulu, and National Geographic. Adept with Avid, Premiere, Frame.io, Asana, and AI-driven production workflows. Experienced with cinematic docuseries, branded content, and social impact storytelling.

Union/Affiliations: DGA (Director), Television Academy, IDA, Realscreen.
Equipment: Full field production kit, 4K/6K camera systems, drone-certified (Part 107).
Specialties: Narrative nonfiction, archival storytelling, social issue documentaries, branded campaigns, and cross-cultural filmmaking.


Special Skills & Experience

Joshua Bennett is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning Producer and Director with over 15 years of experience leading high-end film, television, and multimedia productions across 35+ countries and all 7 continents. As Executive Vice President of Show of Force, he has overseen some of the most acclaimed nonfiction series and impact media projects of the past decade.

His work includes the HBO series Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children (IDA Award, Emmy Winner for Best Historical Series) and Hostages (HBO), as well as Where is Private Dulaney? (Hulu/ABC Studios). Joshua was a producer on the landmark PBS series Half the Sky and A Path Appears with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, and Executive Producer of Humanity on the Move, an award-winning multi-film initiative on the global refugee crisis.

Other notable credits include the CNN Original Series Soundtracks: The Songs That Made History (with Dwayne Johnson), PBS’s Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music, and the social impact film series We The Voters with Vulcan Productions. His short film Los Comandos was shortlisted for an Academy Award, and his feature Sky and Ground was nominated by the IDA for Best Documentary.

Joshua’s projects have earned the Television Academy Honors Award, The Peabody Award, CINE Golden Eagle, multiple Emmy and Realscreen Awards, and a Grammy nomination for Best Music Documentary.

He has presented at the United Nations General Assembly, The Concordia Summit, The Global Philanthropy Forum, and the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, speaking on media’s power to drive social change.

Core Skills: Executive production, creative development, directing, field producing, impact campaigns, multi-platform storytelling, archival research, and cross-cultural production.

Specialties: Premium documentary series, social issue storytelling, branded content, and international field logistics.


Affiliations
  • DGA - Directors Guild of America

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