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Ben Kalina
Ben Kalina
Assistant Professor, Film & Television

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Other projects include: Home: A Rockumentary, following a year in the life of a public middle school rock band in South Philadelphia, A River Reborn, chronicling the revival of a river in the mountains of Central Pennsylvania poisoned by chemicals from abandoned coal mines, and COP27 was a Rehearsal from the 2022 UN climate conference in Egypt.

In addition to his independent documentaries Ben produces a range of short films and videos through his company Mangrove Media, based in Philadelphia. Mangrove partners with organizations including The Nature Conservancy, PennEnvironment, and the National Wildlife Federation.
 
BA, American Studies, Vassar College, 1998
MFA, Film and Media Arts, Temple University, 2011

Graham, Kristen A., “Philly Elementary School Rockers Earn Ovations – and a New Documentary”, October 29, 2017

Quinn O’Callahan, “Guitar Hero”, The Philadelphia Citizen, January 26, 2017

Neil Genzlinger, “Build a Beach, Rinse, Repeat”, New York Times, November 29, 2013

Jeff Berkshire, “Shored Up”, Variety, December 13, 2013

Daphne Howland, “A Beautiful Look at How Seaboards are Destroyed in Shored Up”, Village Voice, November 27, 2013

Bryce Renninger, “Should Public Museums be Open to Controversial Films?” IndieWire, November 21, 2013

Scott Huler, “In NC, the Science Show Doesn’t Go On”, Scientific American, November 19, 2013

Erik Stokstad, “Science Museum Declines to Show Climate Change Film”, Science, November 22, 2013

John Anderson, “Documentaries Thrive in Sandy’s Ruins”, New York Times, February 1, 2013

Patrick Gavin, “Director: Climate Change Right Here”, Politico, June 18, 2013

基于“增大化现实”技术


   Plan C for Civilization, feature documentary

Shored Up movie poster 
Shored Up, DirecTV, 86 minutes, 2013

Home: A Rockumentary promo poster 
HOME: A Rockumentary, WHYY Philadelphia, 55 minutes, 2017

Space and earth with the title Can We Cool the Planet? 
Can We Cool the Planet?, NOVA/PBS, 53 minutes, 2020

Cover of Diorama with girl and moose in forest 
Diorama, Grand Prize @ Seh Sehsuchte