Ben has worked for over 20 years in the animation industry. His short films have been screened around the world in multiple festivals such as Annecy, Ottawa Animation Festival, and SXSW. He has worked as a Director, Storyboard Artist, Animator and Musician and has been involved with dozens of animated series, as well as a number of TV commercials. Get ahold of me! |
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Screenings 2025 Ottawa International Film Festival, Spark Animation, Waco Independent Animation Festival, Vimeo Staff Pick, Short Verse Short of the Week, 2024 Waco Independent Film Festival, Annecy Animation Festival, Seattle Film Festival 2023 Newcastle International Film Festival, Spark Animation Directors Prize, Ottawa International Animation Festival 2020-21 Vimeo Staff Pick, GIRAF 17,Future Vision Festival,Ottawa Internation Animation Festival,SPARK Animation Festival,Mobile Animation Festival2018 Annecy,Vimeo Staff Pick, Melbourne International Animation Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival, Saguenay international Short Film Festival, Kyiv International Short Film Festival 2017 NW Animation Fest, SXSW, ANIBAR, PragueShorts, Titmouse 5-Second Day 2016 Animation Block Party,Titmouse 5-Second Day 2007 St. Louis International Film Festival, 2006 Animafest, Alice's 3-Minute Film Fest, ION Film Festival, 2005 SXSW, Big Bear Lake International Festival, Cinema Orange, VisionFest , Columbus International Film Festival, Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival, Milwaukee International Film Festival's Midnight Delirium Shorts, First Take International Student Film Festival, The Newport Beach Film Festival, The Holland Animation Film Festival, 2004 PIAF, Woodstock Film Festival TV Series and Clients Include: Walmart, MTV, Toyota, Hasbro, Disney, NRDC,PBS, Harvey Birdman, TMNT, Wow Wow Wubbzy, Ed, Edd and Eddy, Perfectland, Where My Dogs At?, Fetch: With Ruff Ruffman, Plum Landing,Kit vs. Kat, Johnny Test, Rocket Monkeys, Breadwinners, Home, Future Worm, Motor City, Apple and Onion, Kinderwood, Baby Shark,Archibald |
Press
Short film: We’re Kinda Different
A Musical Middle Finger with Heart
This Animated Butt-Venture Will Leave You Smiling
Watch: 'We're Kinda Different' Funny 3-Minute Musical Cartoon Short
Exploring Differences and Inclusion: The Deep Meaning of We're Kinda Different
Nightmare or reality? Why not both?
Sarcastic Animation-Living the Dream
Ben Meinhardt’s Meta Short ‘Living The Dream’ Is So Relatable It Should Come With A Trigger Warning
It Should Be Easy, the relationship between elders and technology told by Ben Meinhardt
Ben Meinhardt's excellent feculence
Treat Your Eyeballs with the Best of 5 Second Day Animations
Im Kurzfilm “More” kackt ein Esel Luftballons
Dark Futures Film Club – It Should Be Easy
PerfectLand is an oddly appealing series of Flash-animated shorts created for MTV by Ben Meinhardt.