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Ben Pickering (born 23 June 1979) is a London-born filmmaker and novelist. He is best known for directing the crime thrillers Two Days in the Smoke and Welcome to Curiosity , producing the award-winning Election Night and Give Them Wings and for his dystopian alternative history novel Freiheit .
- Film director, producer, writer, novelist
- Swansea University
- 1995–present
- 23 June 1979 (age 44), Beckenham, London, England
2017. Tenants. Kettering Town F.C. (1897–2011) Rockingham Road was a football stadium in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England. It was home to Kettering Town F.C. from 1897 until 2011. At the time of its closure, the ground had a capacity of 6,264, of which 1,800 was seated. In September 2017, the land was sold by the owner, Ben Pickering Limited.
- 6,264 (1,800 seated)
- grass
- 1897
Welcome to the official website of award-winning author and filmmaker Ben Pickering. Ben’s first foray into movie-making came in 1995, when at just 16 he produced and starred in his first feature, the coming-of-age drama BACKSTREET.
His most recent features - political thriller Election Night and Give Them Wings, the 1980s-set true story of a disabled football fan growing up in northern England - scooped numerous film festival awards ahead of release in 2022. Ben is...
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28 nov 2019 · Audio Coming Soon. Film director Ben Pickering made his name making crime thrillers, featuring familiar faces from the likes of Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. In 2014, however, fiction crossed over into reality when Ben was sentenced to six years in jail for his part in a £5million mortgage fraud scam.
Welcome to Curiosity is a 2018 British crime thriller film directed by Ben Pickering and starring Amrita Acharia, Jack Ashton, Richard Blackwood, Kacey Clarke, Lili Bordán, Stephen Marcus and Finn Corney. It is the world's first film to have raised its entire production budget through equity crowdfunding.
Ben's first foray into movie-making came in 1995, when at just 16 he produced and starred in his very first feature, the coming-of-age drama 'Backstreet'. Two years later he produced and starred in the low-budget gangster thriller 'Tragic Irony'.
