Ben Lewis at Docville International Film Festival 2013
Two of Ben’s films will feature in this year’s Docville – a first for any director.
Animation Students in Belgium Interview Ben over Skype
After Poor Us, it was only time before the animators came to speak with Ben.
Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty
“Poor Us” is a global overview of the history of the poor people, from 10,000BC to today’s era of globalisation. Animation, interviews, motion graphics and archive are combined in this innovative, mould-breaking documentary which imagines the history of poverty as a never-ending dream – nightmare. “Poor Us” – not poor them – makes you, the viewer, ...
Poor Us on TV
Ben’s new documentary Poor Us: an animated history of poverty is shown on 72 different TV channels worldwide, all part of the film series Why Poverty?. Tuesday, 27 November 2012, 21.05: ARTE (Germany/France) Wednesday, 28 November 2012, 22.30: BBC4 (UK)