BenvsDan - Directors

Ben Solomon was born and raised in downtown Manhattan. A child of the Eighties, born to a poet father and photographer mother, he grew up surrounded and inspired by the arts and the streets of New York. Daniel Levin comes from a family tradition of filmmakers. Born and raised in New York City, he is a 3rd generation director on his father’s side.

In their senior year of high school the two collaborated on their first film, La Ciudad Del HipHop. Shot on location in Havana, Cuba, the film is a short documentary chronicling the lives of Cuba’s Hip Hop artists. After both graduating from Emerson College in 2005 with BA’s in film, BENvsDAN Productions was formed and the two immediately began working on CAPTURED. In 2006 the duo also created BORN TO THE PURPLE, a DVD release about Harlem rap group Purple City, distributed internationally by KOCH records.

Jenner Furst - Editor/Producer

Son of the late avant-garde composer, music theorist and entrepreneur Jeffrey Furst, Jenner was raised a nomad and spent his early life submerged in a theater of the bizarre and esoteric. Inspired by a myriad of strange and colorful characters, he began making films in his early teens. In 2006 he graduated from Hampshire College with a BA in Film and Critical Theory.

Marc Levin - Executive Producer

Over the last 25 years, Marc Levin has created his own original vision in his independent films, episodic television and documentaries.  His dramatic feature film, SLAM, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and the Camera D'Or at Cannes in 1998, received international recognition for its seamless blending of the real world with a narrative flow.