Greg Bennick
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Greg Bennick is an American professional speaker and award-winning producer and writer. His film work focuses on projects which explore the depths of human feeling and experience, including Flight from Death,[1] a seven-time Best Documentary award-winning film narrated by Gabriel Byrne which uncovers death anxiety as a possible root cause of many of our violent and aggressive behaviors.[2] The film is regularly screened worldwide, most recently on The Discovery Channel in Canada, and was called "One of the most ambitious documentaries ever made" by PBS Australia.
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[edit] Career
Greg has spoken to and performed for various groups at conferences, seminars, and universities in over a dozen countries. In April 2008 he was recognized with an award for being "Best Presenter" in the corporate marketplace for the most effective presentation out of 25 other competitors at a national conference before 3000 people.
[edit] Films
Greg released the critically-acclaimed Flight from Death, a documentary about death anxiety, inspired by the works and writings of cultural anthropologist and social theorist Dr. Ernest Becker with his film partner Patrick Shen from Transcendental Media. The film began touring film festivals around the world in 2003 and was released on DVD in 2006.[3] The film has since been screened throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia and has been used in over a hundred colleges and universities as a means of initiating discussions on aggression and how to curb violence worldwide.
He is currently at work on two new films, including The Philosopher Kings, which is slated for release in early 2009. The Philosopher Kings is a film which seeks wisdom in unlikely places from people who are most often marginalized and ignored by our society. Greg's other current project is "The Lot", a narrative feature about a group of friends who come together to make amends for a crime they committed together as children twenty years before and in doing so explore regret, making choices, and trust. It is in preproduction and scheduled to be filmed on location in Oregon in the fall of 2009.
[edit] Music
Greg sang for the Seattle straightedge hardcore band Trial between 1995 and 2005. The band toured the United States four times, Europe once, and released three CD's, including the highly acclaimed "Are These Our Lives" in 1999. A DVD about the band entitled "Reunion/Retrospective" was released in 2008 on Panic Records. Greg is currently the vocalist for the band Between Earth and Sky, who are scheduled to release an EP on a soon to be named label, in the winter of 2008/spring of 2009.
[edit] Politics / The World Leaders Project
Greg is the co-founder, along with former Skidmore College Psychology Department Chairman Sheldon Solomon, of The World Leaders Project. This project started in 2001 with the intent of having face to face meetings with World Leaders to discuss the issue of human violence and determine what could be done about it. A meeting in 2003 with President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana was held in Guyana. Other meetings are forthcoming.
[edit] References
- ^ Transcendental Media, Flight from Death Crew, <http://www.flightfromdeath.com/crew.htm>. Retrieved on 6 October 2007
- ^ Seattle Times, Filmmaker examines fear of death, <http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/162387_juggler27.html>. Retrieved on 15 April 2008
- ^ Campos, Eric, Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality, <http://filmthreat.com/index.php?section=reviews&Id=7427>. Retrieved on 6 October 2007
