Contact: bensinclair1@gmail.com
Photo: Quotable Pictures
A filmmaker hovering at the intersection of art and journalism, Benito Sinclair made his directorial debut in 2025 with short documentary films Loose Ends and Ali's Story following a decade's experience as a commercial and documentary producer, photographer, writer, and music supervisor. Based in Chicago, IL and originally from the California coast, Benito is a relentlessly hands-on operator who does whatever it takes to tell an authentic story and provide a strong, fresh perspective. Feature documentary on the NYC Cabaret Law Movement coming soon.
As a producer Benito has a powerful sense for talent, style, story, structure and sound, and pushes on these elements to get the best audience impact. He's designed and executed major fundraising, budgeting and release strategies, raising over 500k in fiscal sponsorship funding and producing distributed content grossing over 3.5m just in the documentary space.
As owner and founder of Sight Lines Visual, Benito focuses on direction, aesthetics, development, partnerships and fundraising. In production, his strengths are in working with creatives on a unified product vision, refining its quality and meeting a schedule for release. While he's experienced in the art of whiteboards, he would rather shoot first-class cinema footage and photos and run pro-sound with a team than sit behind a desk. SLV brings that level of inspiration to every project.
Benito produced the hit documentary Robin’s Wish about Robin Williams and his battle with dementia, along with its soundtrack and its compendium film Spark; the festival award-winning The United States of Detroit; and the real-life wildland firefighter story Fireline about California's Dixie Fire, all at Quotable Pictures. Independently and with 512 Media, his past commercial clients have included giants like Facebook and Rush University to innovators like Spokeo, Nurx and Twillio to nonprofits like the Lewy Body Dementia Association, Bridge the Gap and dublab.
Benito is familiar with clearances and communicating with high profile rights-holders. His experience as a music supervisor can be found in each of his own films; in the Tribeca-premiered, BAFTA-nominated Immortality, available on Netflix; and the Tulluride-premiered California Typewriter, featured on Criterion Channel and now available to stream. He also advised Netflix's Cooking With Paris.
A published writer in the Cambridge Companion series and elsewhere, Benito has also curated and programmed digital music, written for, and contributed services to major streaming products and content initiatives at Apple, Beats, Pandora, MOG and dublab -- working with many giants of the digital music culture, and bearing witness and participating in some of the biggest changes to the industry in a generation. His music-only podcast Sound Contours can be enjoyed here.
