Ben Proudfoot

Ben Proudfoot is a Canadian documentary filmmaker born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who studied at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. His 2011 class project ink&paper became a Vimeo Staff Pick, and in 2012 he founded Breakwater Studios to produce short documentaries. His partnership with The New York Times produced A Concerto Is a Conversation, nominated at the 93rd Academy Awards, and The Queen of Basketball, which won the Oscar for best documentary short. In 2024 he won a second Oscar for The Last Repair Shop, made with Kris Bowers. His feature documentary The Eyes of Ghana premiered at TIFF in 2025.