Biography

Adrien Benson is an award-winning writer, director and performer. Raised in both French and English, his work employs genre filmmaking conventions to explore timely themes of family, bilingualism and national identity. In 2013, he was awarded both the writing and directing award for his comedic one-act play, Nought at the Opera, which premiered at the Glendon College Theatre Festival. In 2014, his short film Entrain screened at more than a dozen festivals around the world and won the Clover and Maggie Award at the Cleveland International Film Festival. He is currently based in Toronto, where he has just completed an MFA in Film Production a...Read More