Benjamin Cantu studied animation, film- and television directing in Babelsberg and Berlin. His focus lies on directing documentary forms and writing on fiction series and art house cinema. From 2016 to 2018 he worked with Lupa Film as creative producer. In 2021 he was showrunner on behalf of Netflix Studios on the 4 part docu-fiction series "Dig Deeper". In 2023 he co-wrote and directed the historical docu feature "Eldorado - Everything the Nazis Hate" as Netflix Original. As producer he worked closely with Nils Bökamp and Felix Kriegsheim at The Thursday Company. Since then he worked both on cinema and streamer commissions as writer, director, story editor and caster.
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