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Ben McIntire is an Emmy Award winning American director of photography living in Stockholm, Sweden. He is best known for his traveling documentary and advertising work. Previously, Ben spent more than a decade working as a freelance DoP and director in New York City, directing and shooting ads for Facebook, Intel, Google and Malibu Rum, among many others.
Within documentary, he has filmed TV shows for Vice Media and History Channel, and completed many feature and short documentaries. Sometimes his work is traveling to remote areas of the world for NGO's, while his more commercial work has been seen on Amazon Prime, Hulu, Tidal and Vice Media.
He was producer and DoP for the 2021 feature documentary The King of North Sudan, produced by Rough House Pictures (Eastbound and Down, The Righteous Gemstones). The film premiered at The Vancouver International Film Festival and was sold for international distribution in 2022.
About Ben
"Small Sea...
...Big Eye."
Small Sea
Ben brings 15 years of experience as a director of photography to his color grading studio Small Sea. The studio area is kitted with top of the line gear to ensure reference grade color accuracy, whether the project is for web, tv, or cinema. Communication is the key to color grading, and you can expect a quick shorthand of someone that's worked closely with directors, dp's and producers for many years.
· The studio is located in Hammerby Sjöstad, Stockholm, walking distance from the Gullmarsplan subway stop and Luma Park.
· Live Grading software and hardware from Streambox as well as fast file transfer with MASV and 1gbps broadband internet, makes for extremely smooth and easy remote grading with international clients.
· The suite centers around a Flanders Scientific CM241 24" reference-grade monitor.
· Client viewing area features a professionally calibrated LG 48" C2 OLED TV, and/or the option to refer to a Flanders Scientific CM171 17" LCD monitor, when grading for web.
· A powerful 27" iMac with 128gb RAM and 24gb vRAM (2 external GPU's) and fast SSD drives.
· MediaPro 6500K bias lights, and Munsell N8 painted walls, assures complete color confidence, whether grading for web, tv or even theatrical color spaces.
· Davinci Resolve Studio for advanced noise reduction and gpu based effects.
· A large collection of pre-prepared looks, elements and grading software tools.
· Blackmagic Design Micro Control Surface.
· Perhaps most importantly, the studio features a large library of physical photography books and magazines and art to help inspire the grade:)