Ben Rekhi

Ben Rekhi

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Tribeca All Access® 2007

About

Ben Rekhi graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where he directed and produced a number of films, including The Waste Project, which won the Best Actor prize at the First Run Festival, and Dirty Laundry, recipient of Warner Bros. Pictures Postproduction grant. Rekhi has worked on the set of O Brother, Where Art Thou? and shot the behind-the-scenes documentary for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. He founded Drops Entertainment and produced his first feature film, Bomb the System, which was nominated for the 2004 Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature and distributed by Palm Pictures. His directorial debut, Waterborne, was the runner-up for the narrative audience prize at the 2005 SXSW Film Festival, and CarBabes, his latest project as producer, premiered at the Hollywood Film Festival.

Waste

Waste

A windowed New York City sanitation worker gets caught in the middle of labor disputes, confronted with more than just the possibility of losing his job