Benh Zeitlin

Born in New York City and raised in Sunnyside Queens and then Westchester County Benh Zeitlin began his career as a filmmaker at the tender age of 6 when he and a friend made a Batman movie He continued making films as a child before attending Wesleyan University where he majored in film After graduation Benh spent a summer in Prague working with a prominent animation artist Returning to the US he worked in a private school in Manhattan helping elementary students create short films