Ben Steinbauer
Directing
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ben Steinbauer is an American documentary film director, based in Austin, Texas. Steinbauer’s films have premiered at South by Southwest and the Austin Film Festival, played on PBS, won awards including top prize at the 2006 Cinematexas Film Festival and screened at the Directors Guild Theatre in Los Angeles. Steinbauer won the Princess Grace Award for his 2009 documentary feature, Winnebago Man.The film follows the Internet phenomenon created by a series of twenty-year-old outtakes from a Winnebago sales video featuring the profane outbursts of the salesman, Jack Rebney. Originally intended as an inside joke, the video spread across the globe and earned Jack the title of "The Angriest Man in the World". The documentary explores the story of the clip’s origin and how it affects the man who never knew it existed. The film had its world premiere at The South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, on March 14, 2009. Winnebago Man won the Jury Prize for Best Documentary Feature at the Sarasota Film Festival in April 2009. The documentary was voted a Top Ten Audience Favorite at the Hot Docs Film Festival in May 2009. Steinbauer's documentary short, The Next Tim Day, chronicled the rise of entrepreneur Tim Day from the housing projects of Galveston, Texas to the shimmering lights of the Sundance Film Festival. The documentary is a quintessential American story about a salesman/hustler who creates a one-man television network called “Hood News.” Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Steinbauer licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Follows childhood friends turned professional comedians, Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett, the founders of the Found Footage Festival. When Nick and Joe book their gag strongman routine on unsuspecting morning news shows, their pranks go viral and land them in federal court with a vengeful media conglomerate. The stress of the lawsuit and pressure to continue their pranks threatens their livelihood and tests their lifelong friendship.
Chop & Steele
Jack Rebney is the most famous man you've never heard of - after cursing his way through a Winnebago sales video, Rebney's outrageously funny outtakes became an underground sensation and made him an internet superstar. Filmmaker Ben Steinbauer journeys to the top of a mountain to find the recluse who unwittingly became the "Winnebago Man".
Winnebago Man
Anybody who ever went to Summer Camp will surely be able to relate to this documentary. It deals with a few weeks at a Summer Camp for young folk, aged 6 to 15. We are introduced to the main element of the more troubled campers, an introvert, a bully,a passive-aggressive,and others.
Summercamp!
In the early 1980's, a group of disenfranchised Oklahoma teenagers mastered the art of prank phone calls and became known as Park Grubbs.
Calls to Okies: The Park Grubbs Story
The story of Apple Records' most controversial artist.
Brute Force
Austin, Texas - based documentary photographer, Robert Shults, went from being a homeless dreamer to a home-owning artist after taking photos of the brightest light source in the known universe, a laser in basement of the physics department at The University of Texas.