Made as part of Channel 4 First Cut Pitch competition at Sheffield Documentary Festival 2022. Five finalist were chosen and given an identical brief: to shoot and edit a three minute film around the theme of “Last Laugh”.

I was selected unanimously by the judges as the winner of the pitch and awarded a 1x60’ First Cut commission.

“The team felt Ben’s short film showed essential characteristics of the very best documentary making - a superb main character, revealing shooting and a structure in the edit that develops. It also followed the brief in an innovative way that made us all laugh out loud.” said Rita Daniels, Sacha Mirzoeff, Channel 4 First Cut commissioners.