Contact: bensinclair1@gmail.com
Photo: Sky Dojo Media
Benito Sinclair has over 12 years cumulative experience as a commercial and documentary film producer, writer and music supervisor. As a producer he 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.
As owner and founder of Sight Lines Visual, Ben focuses on 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. A relentlessly hands-on operator everywhere he's worked, Ben still loves to shoot first-class cinema footage and photos and run pro-sound.
Ben produced the hit documentary Robin’s Wish about Robin Williams and his battle with dementia, 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 in Los Angeles and Sky Dojo Media in Berkeley, his clients have included giants like Facebook to innovators like Spokeo, Nurx and Twillio to nonprofits like the Lewy Body Dementia Association, Bridge the Gap and dublab.
Ben is familiar with clearances and communicating with high profile rights-holders -- his experience as a music supervisor can be found in each of his films; in the Tribeca-premiered, BAFTA-nominated Immortality, available on Netflix; and the Tulluride-premiered California Typewriter, featured on Criterion Channel and now available on Peacock.
A published writer in the Cambridge Companion series and elsewhere, Ben 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.
