ShaunBenjamin
Creative direction acrossfilm, sound, design and experiences.
BABËL
Event films, projection and campaigns for the New York room that booked Black Coffee, Damian Lazarus and DJ Harvey.
Event Visual Invites
Short-form motion invites. A distinct edit style built to make a night feel inevitable before it happens.
Direct Narrative
Brand, corporate and cultural film. New York, 2015 to present.
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Portrait films with artists: studio, process and the work in their own words.
Nightlife & Venues
Club, festival and performance photography. New York and Atlanta.
Sound / Gifted Fire
Producer, recording, mixing and mastering engineer, with over 100 electronic records mixed and mastered.15 years from a hardcore drum stool in Singapore to sessions with musicians from Lagos, São Paulo and Palawan.
Shaun started on percussion in Singapore school bands, then took the drum stool in For Better Endings, a hardcore band that played Baybeats in 2009 and came runner-up for Best Breakthrough Artiste at that year's JunkSounds Awards. A decade in New York turned instinct into craft: a recording arts degree at Full Sail, then Ableton certification and mixing and mastering at Dubspot, the first Ableton Certified Training Centre in the world. Today he records, mixes and masters out of his own studio, with over 100 electronic records behind him and sessions ranging from Middle Eastern oud to Filipino tribal instruments.
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Identity, campaign, motion and finished published objects.
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Brand films · Content · Campaigns
Experiences
Creative direction · Events · Visual production
Sound
Recording · Mixing & mastering · Original score
Design
Identity · Campaigns · Publishing
One idea.Every medium.
I move between disciplines so the idea doesn't get diluted between departments. Shoot the film, score it, design the campaign around it, produce the event it launches at. One person, start to finish.
Film · Sound · Design · Experiences
Live & Rooms
- Wonderfruit 2024, Moonlight Stage
- Cityfox Halloween at The Brooklyn Mirage, on a bill with Bonobo, Bob Moses and Kölsch
- National Sawdust · The Williamsburg Hotel · Bogart House
- Sagamore South Beach · Habitas · 3 Dollar Bill
- NYC residencies: Caché Life · Palosanto · Mr. Purple
- Baybeats 2009, Esplanade Singapore
Collaborators & Labels
- Eli Fola, TED speaker and founder of Tech Afrique
- Valtinho Anastácio · KAWANGIS AlternaTRIBU · The Dude With The Oud
- Sam Sparacio · Cafe De Anatolia · Inward Records · Rapture
- Remixed by Amonita, Tuman and Tayu
- Gifted Fire Records, own imprint: a release every month through 2026
Production & Training
- Direct Narrative, Associate Producer, 2015 to present
- World Monuments Fund gala: Telly Award, produced at Direct Narrative
- BABËL New York, Visual Production & Marketing
- Ableton Certified & Mixing/Mastering, Dubspot NYC
- BS Recording Arts, Full Sail · BFA Electronic Design, CCNY
- Additional production and mix credits held under non-disclosure
That range is the offer.
Singapore-born, a decade in New York, now working between Bangkok, Singapore and NYC. Recording arts and electronic design by training; film, sound, design and events by practice, at Direct Narrative, at BABËL, and for my own label.
I also release music internationally as Gifted Fire.