Feature Films
EVOLVE: Driving a Clean Future in Coal Country
This feature-length documentary about the remarkable rise of electric vehicles and renewable energy in Kentucky won the 2018 Utopian Visions Award at Washington D.C.'s Utopia Film Festival and screened on PBS/KET as a special event. Available via Vimeo On Demand, at EVolveKY.org, and, periodically, on PBS/KET.
NERVE: How a Small Kentucky Town Led the Fight to Safely Dismantle the World's Chemical Weapons
This 60-min. film about Vietnam vet and Goldman Prize-Winner, Craig Williams, and the remarkable origins and 25-year history of the Kentucky Environmental Foundation
won the 2016 Grand Jury Prize at Yale University's EFFY (Environmental Film Festival at Yale) and the 2018 Whistleblower Award at Cinema Verde Film Festival.
Available at the Kentucky Environmental Foundation website.
won the 2016 Grand Jury Prize at Yale University's EFFY (Environmental Film Festival at Yale) and the 2018 Whistleblower Award at Cinema Verde Film Festival.
Available at the Kentucky Environmental Foundation website.
YERT: Your Environmental Road Trip
This multiple-award-winning feature-length documentary and perennial audience favorite, which screened at dozens of film festivals around the world, chronicles an intrepid trio's year-long exploration of sustainable solutions in all 50 states. The project's YouTube channel has over 2 million views.
The film, distributed by First Run Features in 2011, ran on NETFLIX from 2012-2015 and is still available via iTunes and Amazon.
The film, distributed by First Run Features in 2011, ran on NETFLIX from 2012-2015 and is still available via iTunes and Amazon.
BEcreative is...
A Louisville-based media production house dedicated to promoting a more sustainable and just world through
the creation of compelling film & video, environmental education, branding, and other engaging content and outreach.
the creation of compelling film & video, environmental education, branding, and other engaging content and outreach.
We've created for...
The Huffington Post, The Nation, YES! Magazine, PBS/KET, the University of Louisville's Envirome Institute, Dogwood Alliance, Slow Money, SAFE (Southern Illinoisans Against Fracturing Our Environment), PASA (Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture), KFTC (Kentuckians For The Commonwealth), Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, 15Thousand Farmers, Bluegrass Bioneers, sonaBLAST! Records / Heidi Howe, Kentucky Waterways Alliance, Louisville Nature Center,
Louisville Metro Council, The Root Cellar, duPont Manual High School, Louisville Grows, LEO Weekly, FORsooth, Louisville Sustainability Council,
the Kentucky Environmental Foundation, EVolveKY.org, and others.
During the course of our work, we've filmed icons like Janine Benyus, Wendell Berry, Larry Gibson, Wes Jackson, Lawrence Lessig, Bill McKibben, David Orr,
Michael Reynolds, Joel Salatin, Sandra Steingraber, Vandana Shiva, Woody Tasch, Craig Williams, and many others.
Louisville Metro Council, The Root Cellar, duPont Manual High School, Louisville Grows, LEO Weekly, FORsooth, Louisville Sustainability Council,
the Kentucky Environmental Foundation, EVolveKY.org, and others.
During the course of our work, we've filmed icons like Janine Benyus, Wendell Berry, Larry Gibson, Wes Jackson, Lawrence Lessig, Bill McKibben, David Orr,
Michael Reynolds, Joel Salatin, Sandra Steingraber, Vandana Shiva, Woody Tasch, Craig Williams, and many others.
About Ben...
Ben Evans started BEcreative to create conscientious, engaging media and content for environmental organizations, independent artists,
and socially-conscious entities both regionally and nationally. As the director of the award-winning documentaries,
YERT: Your Environmental Road Trip (multiple award-winning film distributed in late-2011 by First Run Features), NERVE (Grand Jury Prize at the 2016 Environmental Film Festival at Yale), and EVOLVE (Utopian Visions Award at the 2018 Utopia Film Festival), Ben has presented on sustainability at universities (like Yale), events (like TEDx), and businesses (like Apple). He was also the co-founder/producer of the Bluegrass Bioneers Conference (Kentucky’s edition of the national Bioneers Conference), the editor/publisher of GreenList (Louisville's green guide and magazine), and served as the co-founding director of The Green Institute (an annual 12-week sustainability course for community leaders run through Louisville’s Center for Neighborhoods) from 2012-2017, for which he was awarded the 2014 Earth Day Award from the state of Kentucky. Ben has served on the boards of the Forecastle Foundation, Bluegrass Bioneers, Louisville’s Green Convene, and the Kentucky Conservation Committee.
After graduating from Stanford University (B.S. in Science, Technology, and Society), Ben worked professionally for more than a decade as an educator and an
actor/singer in LA, NYC, and Europe before transitioning to documentary filmmaking in 2007 and relocating to Louisville in 2008.
When not filmmaking, he teaches science in the public school system and urban homesteads in Louisville's Germantown neighborhood with his wife, daughter, and their assorted wonderful creatures.
and socially-conscious entities both regionally and nationally. As the director of the award-winning documentaries,
YERT: Your Environmental Road Trip (multiple award-winning film distributed in late-2011 by First Run Features), NERVE (Grand Jury Prize at the 2016 Environmental Film Festival at Yale), and EVOLVE (Utopian Visions Award at the 2018 Utopia Film Festival), Ben has presented on sustainability at universities (like Yale), events (like TEDx), and businesses (like Apple). He was also the co-founder/producer of the Bluegrass Bioneers Conference (Kentucky’s edition of the national Bioneers Conference), the editor/publisher of GreenList (Louisville's green guide and magazine), and served as the co-founding director of The Green Institute (an annual 12-week sustainability course for community leaders run through Louisville’s Center for Neighborhoods) from 2012-2017, for which he was awarded the 2014 Earth Day Award from the state of Kentucky. Ben has served on the boards of the Forecastle Foundation, Bluegrass Bioneers, Louisville’s Green Convene, and the Kentucky Conservation Committee.
After graduating from Stanford University (B.S. in Science, Technology, and Society), Ben worked professionally for more than a decade as an educator and an
actor/singer in LA, NYC, and Europe before transitioning to documentary filmmaking in 2007 and relocating to Louisville in 2008.
When not filmmaking, he teaches science in the public school system and urban homesteads in Louisville's Germantown neighborhood with his wife, daughter, and their assorted wonderful creatures.
Contact
benevansmail@gmail.com
917.657.7253
917.657.7253
