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Benjamin Cantu

Hungary

Biography

From writers’ rooms to edit suites, Benjamin has built a career that moves between writing, directing, and producing. After studying animation at Film University Babelsberg, he completed his directing studies at Berlin’s DFFB, where his feature Stadt Land Fluss premiered at Berlinale Generation (2011). As a creative producer, Benjamin engaged with production companies, both in Germany and Hungary, focusing on the development and financing of documentaries, series, and feature films. Among them are the comedy series Just Push Abuba (ZDF, 2019), the anthology ZEIT Verbrechen (Paramount+, 2023), and the doc-series Love Scam (Sky Studios, 2025). In 2021, Benjamin was hired by Netflix Studios as showrunner on the true-crime series Dig Deeper, before he co-wrote and directed the docudrama Eldorado – Everything the Nazis Hate, a Netflix Original. Having a broad understanding of storytelling, Benjamin aims to elevate series projects as a development producer and story editor.

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