Mark Benjamin

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Mark Benjamin (born 1947) is an American documentary filmmaker best known for his Peabody Award-winning, Sundance TV series Brick City and the feature film Slam. His most recent television series, Ocean Warriors aired on Animal Planet in 2016. In 2018, Benjamin co-directed, with Marc Levin, the feature documentary Chasing the Thunder, which follows Sea Shepherd Conservation Society captains during a 110-day, 10,000-nautical-mile pursuit of the poaching vessel Thunder from Antarctica to West Africa. The film premiered at EarthxFilm in 2018 and had a wider streaming release on Discovery+ in 2021. In 2025, Benjamin co-directed, with Katie Carpenter, the documentary Fatal Watch, which investigates the deaths and disappearances of fisheries observers monitoring the international tuna industry and examines broader issues of over-fishing and transparency in commercial fishing. The film premiered on March 21, 2025, at the Sonoma International Film Festival and screened on March 24, 2025, at the DC Environmental Film Festival. It was covered in interviews on Radio New Zealand and Mongabay, and received a Certificate of Merit in the Donald Gosling Award for Best Audio-Visual Production category at The Maritime Foundation's 2025 Maritime Media Awards.…

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