
Ben Gregor
Directing
Biography
Ben Gregor directs film, TV, and commercials, specialising in comedy with visual flair. Ben is currently directing The Magic Faraway Tree for Elysium and Neal Street from a script by Simon Farnaby. The film stars Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, Nicola Coughlan, Jessica Gunning, Jennifer Saunders, Rebecca Ferguson, Nonso Anozie, Dustin Demri-Burns, and Michael Palin. Ben directed Black Ops, an award-winning comedy thriller for the BBC, created by and starring Gbemisola Ikumelo and Akemnji Ndifornyen and also starring Hammed Animashaun, Zoe Wanamaker, Felicity Montagu, and Alex Macqueen. Other credits include lead director on Series 6 of Brassic for Calamity and Sky and lead director on Series 3 of Britannia for Neal Street, Vertigo, and Sky. Information above via their homepage.
Known For

A group of working-class friends finding unconventional ways to win at life in suburban northern England. These lads have dealt, scammed, bribed and conned their way through adolescence, but now, their dealing and stealing is catching up with them and a whole load of trouble is heading their way.
Brassic

Sitcom about a small-time dope dealer and his strange collection of acquaintances.
Ideal

A modern family relocates to the countryside where the children discover a magical tree with eccentric residents. They're transported to fantastical lands, rekindling their family bond through adventures.
The Magic Faraway Tree

Dom and Kay join the Met Police in the hope of cleaning up their community, but are unwittingly thrust into the murky world of deep cover infiltration as they become part of a powerful criminal enterprise. But for Dom and Kay it quickly becomes more of a fiasco than Donnie Brasco…
Black Ops

The sitcom features the band members Stefan Abingdon, Dru Wakely and Ashley Horne alongside a host of comedic guest stars who are depicted as wannabe musicians struggling to make it.
The Midnight Beast

Two kids look to throw an ambitious dance show in order to save their struggling youth center.
All Stars

Even cult 80s popstars need to do the shopping... Documentary-style comedy about Adam & The Ants making a charmingly off-kilter trip to their local 24-hour supermarket at 2am on a nondescript weekday morning. Cruising the aisles like some kind of bizarre surrogate family-unit, the flamboyantly dressed band-members are thrown into crisis when one of their 2 drummers suddenly goes missing.
Ant Muzak
A widower receives strange Christmas gifts from a mysterious stranger.
The 12 Days of Christmas

Tom,a junior doctor under suspension for fatally removing the wrong lung from a patient and nick-named Dr. Death,is working in Leeds as a paramedic with the knowing Julie,who sells sex aids from the back of the ambulance. After dealing with a man whose pet alligator bit his fingers off and a Goth who threw up so much an exorcist was brought in,Tom redeems himself by reviving an unconscious man. But he still has to deal with Rob Krizzo,the scruffy - and useless - lawyer engaged to fight his case and who accidentally injects him,not to mention Terence,from whose anus he once removed a mobile phone and who is now lustfully stalking him.And then girl-friend Lucy,another doctor,seems to be about to throw him over.
D.O.A

Intergalactic revolutionaries "Blake's 7" make an eventful late night stop at Newport Pagnell Services on the M1.
Blake's Junction 7

The heroes and villains from the Golden Age of British wrestling must grapple against the odds to make it home safely from a night out on the tiles on-board a red double-decker bus.
World of Wrestling

Everybody has a dad. But not everybody knows them. Or has even met them. In this documentary feature, young people from Memphis, LA, New York and London talk about absent fathers and perform music videos of original songs they wrote for the film. Then we meet some absent fathers, explore the reasons why, and find an innovative way forward. It is directed by Ben Gregor, working with APCH in South Central LA, The Door in NYC, STAX Music Academy in Memphis and Homeboy Industries in LA, as well as young people formerly of Kids Company in London. Powerful, shocking and uplifting, with songs and music videos spanning the genres of Soul, Hip Hop, Gospel, Classical, Blues and Spoken Word, Fatherhood makes essential new voices heard.