Ben Steinbauer

Ben Steinbauer is a documentary director producer and showrunner known for finding humor and humanity in unexpected places His feature documentary Winnebago Man was called one of the funniest documentaries ever made by Michael Moore and named one of Roger Eberts favorite films of 2010 His most recent feature Chop Steele premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was released theatrically by Drafthouse Films Steinbauer showran and directed the Hulu Original doccomedy series High Hopes executive produced by Jimmy Kimmel and directed all eight episodes of the CBS documentary series Pink Collar Crimes His other work includes the Emmywinning PBS series Stories of the Mind the New York Times OpDoc Slow to Show and Heroes From the Storm produced for Texas Monthly and selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick Steinbauer is a recipient of the Princess Grace Award for Filmmaking and cofounder of the Austinbased Emmy Awardwinning production company The Bear He also cohosts Doc Walks a podcast about documentary filmmaking with filmmaker Keith Maitland