Ben Sollee

Películas

En un lugar salvaje
Original Music Composer
Cuando su vida se ve sacudida por una serie de inesperados acontecimientos, Edee pierde la habilidad de conectar con el mundo y la gente que una vez la rodeó. Hastiada de su vida, decide retirarse a un bosque en las Montañas Rocosas con unos pocos víveres. Pese a que la belleza de su nuevo hogar es incontestable, Edee sufre para lograr ajustarse a su nueva vida y especialmente al duro invierno que le espera a la vuelta de la esquina. Un día es descubierta al borde de la muerte por un cazador local que logra salvarla, pero su mayor reto llegará cuando trate de volver a aprender a vivir de nuevo.
From the Edge of America
Camera Operator
Ethan Payne’s documentary captures the rapport between musician Lonnie Holley and the late producer/musician Richard Swift, two men separated by decades in age, but united in spirit. Spanning two recording sessions, this half-hour chronicle shows the making of Holley's National Freedom EP.
Beauty Mark
Original Music Composer
Angie, a poverty-stricken young mother, is taking care of her son and alcoholic mother when she is evicted from her house. Now she has to get money from the only person she knows with any - the man who abused her as a child.
I Come From
Music
America is the world's largest jailer and our over-burdened corrections system treats individuals as numbers. I COME FROM focuses on incarcerated poets and playwrights who use the power of creativity to change the direction of their lives. Their poems and plays reflect hard lives lived, tough environments negotiated, past mistakes made. This film focuses on six incarcerated artists whose work declares a wish, a will to survive, to grow as human beings and embrace an architecture of change. Recorded at Northpoint, Kentucky Department of Corrections, USA.
Maidentrip
Original Music Composer
14-year-old Laura Dekker sets out on a two-year voyage in pursuit of her dream to become the youngest person ever to sail around the world alone.