
Joseph Bennett
Directing
Known For

When a deep space freighter is damaged by a solar flare its surviving crew are stranded on a beautiful and unforgiving planet. They begin to learn the true nature of this planet as they try to survive long enough to escape or be rescued.
Scavengers Reign

Former high school lab partners Marshall and Frances begin to unravel a conspiracy involving big pharma and the federal government to suppress knowledge of a rare mushroom that may hold the key to curing all the world’s diseases.
Common Side Effects

Join the Campbell boys, three doting teenagers and their tenderhearted dad, as they live, laugh, love their way into your living rooms. They're big dudes with big feelings who are learning to navigate life in the wake of their mother's death, sensing her presence in everyday adventures.
Haha, You Clowns
Calvin works at his family-owned flower shop (called Best Buds), the “crown jewel of the local strip mall.” When his best friend, Evelyn, comes back to town after dropping out of grad school, he gets her a job at the shop and they begin a mission to bring the place out of the 1980s and into the present.
Best Buds

Stranded on planet Vesta Minor, the two surviving crew members of the star craft Vesta-1 perform a series of bizarre rituals using alien flora and fauna in order to achieve… something.
Scavengers

A collaboration with Thomas Middleditch
Mitch

A collaboration with Martin Starr
Football

You are about to meet Jay. And your life will never be the same.
Jay
A fable about the man who owns every story, and the bedtime story he chooses to tell.
Bedtime Stories with Abraham Willosby

As a slow building terror envelopes a lonely park ranger outpost, three rangers are forced to test the limits of their humanity.
Derecho

A collaboration with Charles Huettner
FROM GOD'S MOUTH TO YOUR EARS

Joseph Bennett's 2008 Thesis short film!
Don't Drink the Water

Two brothers talk about cars, Altoids, and mortality while birdwatching in the woods.
Birds

A grotesque fantasy that sees its protagonist ‘Viking Erik’ embark on a relentless quest for vengeance, this 14-minute animated short follows its hero as he battles his way through an army of freaks and monsters and defies the gods that rule his world.
Odin's Afterbirth

TV Talkshow Terror
Out To Lunch

A combination of digital and film animation. Animations and abstractions on 35mm film created by Caitlin Díaz. Character design by Terrence White. Sound design and music by Mike Jansson. Voice Over by Cory Blische and Brandon Blische.