McKinley Benson

McKinley Benson

Birth : 1999-01-06, Los Angeles, California, USA

History

McKinley Benson is a Student Emmy award-winning filmmaker and the co-founder of Room 330 Productions. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from SCAD Atlanta in 2020 with a BFA in Film & Television. McKinley is a writer, director, and producer responsible for more than a dozen short films, three documentaries, and two TV pilots. He has also worked with such companies as Netflix, Disney, Paramount, and Lionsgate. His selected projects include Night and Day (2021), Homestead (2020), and Death of Childhood (2020).

Profile

McKinley Benson

Movies

Homestead
Editor
Set in 1870s Oregon, an obsessive carpenter relocates his pregnant wife and young daughter to an isolated land with the promise of a better life, but instead is plagued by grief and paranoia.
Homestead
Writer
Set in 1870s Oregon, an obsessive carpenter relocates his pregnant wife and young daughter to an isolated land with the promise of a better life, but instead is plagued by grief and paranoia.
Homestead
Director
Set in 1870s Oregon, an obsessive carpenter relocates his pregnant wife and young daughter to an isolated land with the promise of a better life, but instead is plagued by grief and paranoia.
A Snail Can Take Down a Starfish
Editor
On the last day of summer break in 1999, an outcast boy attempts to help a girl overcome her fear of swimming.
A Snail Can Take Down a Starfish
Director of Photography
On the last day of summer break in 1999, an outcast boy attempts to help a girl overcome her fear of swimming.
A Snail Can Take Down a Starfish
Director
On the last day of summer break in 1999, an outcast boy attempts to help a girl overcome her fear of swimming.
A Snail Can Take Down a Starfish
Writer
On the last day of summer break in 1999, an outcast boy attempts to help a girl overcome her fear of swimming.
Kalos
Editor
After the recent death of his grandmother, a young boy brings his grandfather to his usual hideout spot. In an attempt to cheer him up, the boy presents his grandfather with an opportunity to revisit a sweet memory of his late wife. The grandfather obliges the boy and travels back to his childhood at the very same hideout spot.
Kalos
Cinematography
After the recent death of his grandmother, a young boy brings his grandfather to his usual hideout spot. In an attempt to cheer him up, the boy presents his grandfather with an opportunity to revisit a sweet memory of his late wife. The grandfather obliges the boy and travels back to his childhood at the very same hideout spot.
Kalos
Co-Producer
After the recent death of his grandmother, a young boy brings his grandfather to his usual hideout spot. In an attempt to cheer him up, the boy presents his grandfather with an opportunity to revisit a sweet memory of his late wife. The grandfather obliges the boy and travels back to his childhood at the very same hideout spot.
Kalos
Writer
After the recent death of his grandmother, a young boy brings his grandfather to his usual hideout spot. In an attempt to cheer him up, the boy presents his grandfather with an opportunity to revisit a sweet memory of his late wife. The grandfather obliges the boy and travels back to his childhood at the very same hideout spot.
Kalos
Director
After the recent death of his grandmother, a young boy brings his grandfather to his usual hideout spot. In an attempt to cheer him up, the boy presents his grandfather with an opportunity to revisit a sweet memory of his late wife. The grandfather obliges the boy and travels back to his childhood at the very same hideout spot.
Night and Day
Producer
On the streets of Jakarta, an impulsive, small-time con swindles a big-time aristocrat out of house and home at risk of abandonment by his only brother.
Night and Day
Writer
On the streets of Jakarta, an impulsive, small-time con swindles a big-time aristocrat out of house and home at risk of abandonment by his only brother.
Martha
Editor
Martha, a single mother and working nurse, struggles with her son leaving for college. When a mysterious woman invites Martha to a dinner party of other "empty nest" mothers, she soon realizes the gathering is not as innocent as it seems.
Martha
Writer
Martha, a single mother and working nurse, struggles with her son leaving for college. When a mysterious woman invites Martha to a dinner party of other "empty nest" mothers, she soon realizes the gathering is not as innocent as it seems.
Martha
Director
Martha, a single mother and working nurse, struggles with her son leaving for college. When a mysterious woman invites Martha to a dinner party of other "empty nest" mothers, she soon realizes the gathering is not as innocent as it seems.