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Ben Garchar

Ben Garchar

Directing

Biography

Ben Garchar is a director and editor whose work spans documentary and fiction. As an editor, he’s collaborated with first-time directors and Oscar winners alike on films that have played at Sundance, Tribeca, Hot Docs, Full Frame, and MoMA. As a director, his award-winning shorts have played internationally, including Clermont-Ferrand, Sheffield DocFest, Raindance, DC Shorts, and BAMcinemaFest.

Known For

Radium Girls
6.7

Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.

Radium Girls

2020
Life After You
5.0

A suburban family struggles with the death of their 19 year-old son, following an overdose of heroin that was laced with fentanyl. The film explores the question of who and what is responsible for this tragedy.

Life After You

2022
The Journey
N/A

Field of Vision and The New Yorker have created a six-part episodic documentary, filmed in 2015, that immerses us in the Syrian refugee crisis. Matthew Cassel, an independent multimedia journalist and filmmaker based in Istanbul, follows the seven-month, obstacle-laden 1700-mile journey of Aboud Shalhoub, a Syrian refugee who has fled the dangers of wartime Damascus in order to build a better life for his family in the Netherlands. Cassel's colleague Simon Safieh remained in Damascus with Aboud's wife and two children, who eventually join him in Europe.

The Journey

2016
Union
7.5

Up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York.

Union

2024
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N/A

A poetic documentation of the Long Beach Island, NJ community as they battle local politics, cope with personal tragedy, and band together after Hurricane Sandy.

This Time Next Year

2014
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
5.8

The inside story of the last days of a General Motors plant in Moraine, Ohio, as lived by the people who worked the line.

The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant

2009
Remote Area Medical
6.8

Amid the nation’s ongoing debate over health care reform, this bracing new documentary examines the everyday realities of Americans who lack access to affordable medical treatment. Filmed during three days in the operation of a “no-cost” clinic set up annually at Bristol, Tennessee’s NASCAR speedway, Remote Area Medical documents the range of medical care the eponymous organization provides to low-income patients in the heart of Appalachia.

Remote Area Medical

2013
JAKE
N/A

A struggling expat living in Berlin spirals toward homicide when his unrequited love reveals a dark secret.

JAKE

2016
Feast of the Epiphany
4.0

Abby, a 20-something Brooklynite, prepares to throw an intimate dinner party, a meticulously planned evening that takes an unexpected turn when the guest of honor shows up and raw emotions rise to the surface.

Feast of the Epiphany

2018
Rouge
N/A

Rouge follows the current coach and four players, who shoulder the weight of the team’s celebrated history as well as the pressures of making future careers for themselves. Older legends tell tales of former victories while also exploring the challenging economic and environmental circumstances of the industrial town.

Rouge

2024
The Ascent
N/A

As the new World Trade Center tower rises, a photographer obsessed with 9/11 falls for a mysterious woman.

The Ascent

2013
Neighborhood
N/A

The lives of three strangers-a pigeon keeper, a webcam model, and a man haunted by ghosts-intertwine mysteriously amidst the backdrop of a rapidly gentrifying Bushwick.

Neighborhood

2019
An Act of Worship
N/A

An Act of Worship is Pakistani-American filmmaker Nausheen Dadabhoy’s lyrical portrait of the last 20 years of Muslim Life in America as told through the lens of Muslims living in the United States.

An Act of Worship

2022
Things Seen Things Heard
N/A

An audiovisual diary. NYC: 2009 - 2014

Things Seen Things Heard

2021
LUV U
N/A

A spaceman tries to save a woman from Earth's imminent destruction.

LUV U

2014
the view from where i see it
N/A

A meditation on lockdown, isolation, and yearning.

the view from where i see it

2025
To Be Queen
N/A

In Luling, the "toughest town in Texas", two Latina high school girls compete to be the next Watermelon Thump Queen.

To Be Queen

2019
Fleeting
N/A

A story of everlasting love told throughout space and time.

Fleeting

2016
RUN to ME RUN from ME
5.0

Jake, Midwest High School's star long distance runner, is overtaken by anorexia and sexual fantasy.

RUN to ME RUN from ME

2009
Broadway
N/A

Two strangers. Late night. New York City.

Broadway

2013