Ben Kalina

Roles: Director

Ben Kalina is an award-winning director and producer whose work centers on the collision between human nature and the force of nature. His first feature documentary, Shored Up, won the 2014 Sundance Institute LightStay Sustainability Award, exploring rising sea levels and the politics of climate change in the U.S. in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In 2020 he Produced and Directed Can We Cool the Planet? for NOVA. He directed and produced the documentary HOME for WHYY in Philadelphia in 2017 and produced four episodes of the 2016 PBS/ CPB/OZY Media series The Contenders: 16 for ‘16. He was Associate Producer of A Sea Change, broadcast on Discovery’s Planet Green in 2009, and Two Square Miles, broadcast on PBS’ Independent Lens in 2006. Ben’s production company, Mangrove Media, is based in Philadelphia where he is an Assistant Professor in the Film and Television Program at Drexel University.