Benjamin Mirguet

Benjamin Mirguet
Graduation Semester MDP
Visiting Lecturer and Editing Adviser (2021)

Benjamin Mirguet is an editor, consultant, director, festival curator.

As an editor, he was involved in films such as Batalla en el Cielo (Carlos Reygadas), Meteora (Spiros Stathoulopoulos), 40 Days of Silence (Saodat Ismailova), Dau (Ilya Khrzhanovski), Deadweight (Axel Koenzen), The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid… (Ben Rivers), Together Forever (Lina Luzyte), Rey (Niles Atallah), Memory House (Joao Paulo Miranda Maria), etc.

He has been involved as consultant editor for First Cut Lab since the very first edition in 2015. He designed a Trailer Workshop for the Istanbul Film Festival and was editing tutor for Doha Film Institute’s Qumra.

Benjamin directed the short film The Dead Hear Not the Bells, which premiered in Premiers Plans Angers and IFF Rotterdam. He’s developing his first feature film.

As a festival programmer, he was member of the selection committee for the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2010 & 2011. He also collaborated with CPH:DOX programming team in 2011.