Ben is the director, producer and director of photography of Buried Above Ground. The documentary film explores the harrowing stories of three Americans living with these burdens of PTSD—a combat-wounded Army Captain returning from Iraq with a Purple Heart, a native New Orleanian survivor of Hurricane Katrina, and a rape/domestic violence survivor. With four stories, Buried Above Ground takes the realities of living with PTSD out of the shadows and allow audiences to experience the emotional, medical, and financial costs of this growing mental health epidemic. (www.buriedaboveground.tv)

Recently, Ben was selected as a Fellow for The Carter Center’s 2010-2011 Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism for his documentary Buried Above Ground. The fellowship program is part of the Carter Center's Mental Health Program, which works around the world to reduce stigma and discrimination against people with mental illnesses and to decrease incorrect and stereotypical information. The program also seeks to increase access to mental health services and inform mental health public policy. Ben also was selected to participate in The Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma’s 2010 conference entitled “When Veterans Come Home: A Workshop for Working Journalists” at The Carter Center in Atlanta, GA. The Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma, a project of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, is dedicated to informed, effective and ethical news reporting on violence, conflict and tragedy.

In addition to Buried Above Ground, Ben is producing a new feature-length documentary about maternal health issues and the prevention of mother to child HIV transmission shooting in Zambia for director and executive producer Margaret Betts.

Recently, Ben Selkow and A Summer in the Cage were featured on the cover of Wesleyan University’s alumni magazine in an article entitled “Focus on the Truth” by Katherine Jamieson.

Ben was honored as one of 50 Non-Fiction Filmmakers at the Current TV/Fader Films Symposium "A Day of Dialogue and the Future of Non-Fiction Film" on November 6, 2007, featuring keynote speaker former Vice President Nobel Prize honoree, Academy Award winner and Current TV founder Al Gore, as well as luminary filmmakers Barbara Kopple, Albert Maysles, Alex Gibney, and Marc Levin.

Ben is the director/producer/cinematographer/writer of A Summer in the Cage, a feature-length documentary about bipolar disorder. The film premiered nationally on Sundance Channel in October 2007, is available from 7th Art Releasing for educational/institutional exhibition, for sale on home video from IndiePix Films, and distributed through digital portals by Cinetic Rights Management (CRM). www.cagethemovie.com

A Summer in the Cage won the 2009 Mental Health America Media Award in the Documentary Category and received the award at the Centennial Conference in Washington, DC on June 13, 2009. The film was nominated for a 2008 Prism Award for Bipolar Disorder Depiction by the Entertainment Industries Council.

Ben was the Co-Producer of Onward Christian Soldier, a feature-length documentary film about fugitive bomber and domestic terrorist Eric Robert Rudolph for Field Hands Productions based in New York City. The film is intended for theatrical, cable and DVD release in 2011. Along with helping to run Field Hands Productions, Ben oversaw all phases of pre-production, production (shooting with cinematographer Maryse Alberti) and post-production with editor Susanne Rostock for Onward Christian Soldier.

In 2003, Ben was a participant in the annual Sundance Producer's Conference at the Sundance Institute in Utah.

Before producing at Field Hands, he associate produced for Fox Sports Net's Beyond the Glory (2000-2001). Ben also was a field producer/camera operator for a series of street basketball DVD's entitled Straight from the Streets (2000). He began his film experience as a production assistant and assistant director on feature films such as Meet the Parents (2000), What Lies Beneath (2000), Center Stage (2000) and Random Hearts (1999), television shows such as Sex in the City and The Sopranos. Ben began his film career interning at Tribeca Productions and Warner Brothers story departments.

Ben first became interested in film after seeing his mother, a psychologist, being featured in the National Film Board of Canada documentary L'Interdit (1976), about an alternative commune for treating schizophrenics in Canada. He is a screenwriter, an avid photographer, traveler, and basketball player. Ben is a member of the Independent Film Project (IFP) the International Documentary Association (IDA), as well as being fiscally sponsored by the IDA. Ben was born in Montreal, Canada and is a dual-citizen. He holds a double-major Bachelor of Arts with Honors in both Film Studies and African-American Studies from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut where he received the W.E.B. Du Bois Academic Award for Overall Excellence. He received a certificate from the School for International Training in Tanzania, East Africa.

He resides in Brooklyn, NY.