Ben Cotner

Ben Cotner is a famous film director, producer, and writer. He was born in the year 1979 in the United States of America. He graduated from Pitzer College in Claremont, California. He was an executive for ten years at Paramount Pictures and Open Road Films, where he mostly supervised investment and production department. He has worked on such films as An Inconvenient Truth, A Haunted House, Side Effects Click to look into! >> Read More... , The Grey Click to look into! >> Read More... and End of Watch, American Teen, Mad Hot Ballroom.

He became famous in Hollywood after his film The Case Against 8 Click to look into! >> Read More... , which was released in 2014. He made the film with his friend Ryan White. White was a Documentary Filmmaker from the very start, even though they both come from very different backgrounds, they both met at Sundance and then partnered together to make the film. Since then he has directed and produced many shows and movies.

As a producer he has made shows like Medal of honor, Bobby Kennedy for president, The Bleeding Edge, Rapture, Take Your Pills, Ugly Delicious, Wild Wild Country, Somebody Feed Phil, Rotten, Joan Didion: The center will not hold, Kingdom of Us, Gaga: Five Foot Two, The Keepers, The Life and Death of Marsha P. Johnson, Five Came Back, Abstract: The Art of Design, Nobody Speak: Trials of the free pass, The Mars Generation, 13th (Documentary), Amanda Knox and The Case Against 8.

He is also the one, who has written and directed the film ‘The Case Against 8’. He was inspired by the films, ‘The Staircase,’ ‘The War Room,’ and ‘American Dream.’ Till now he has won 10 awards and been nominated 14 times. He also got a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special.

His film The Case Against 8 is a documentary in which it shows the, behind the scenes of the unlikely team that took the federal marriage equality case to the U.S. Supreme Court. It is based on a real-life instance. He has also done a lot of shows for Netflix, his shows and movies have become very popular on Netflix and are doing very well.

He has not only won awards for ‘The Case Against 8’ but also for ‘The Keepers,’ ‘13th,’ ‘Five Came Back,’ He has been doing very well in Hollywood and has made a name for himself. His favorite quote is ‘If your dreams don’t scare you, then they aren’t big enough.’