About Benn

Benn Wiebe lives in London and is Vice Chairman / Executive Producer of HF Productions where he oversees global film festivals, documentary producing, and brokers strategic partnerships. With the headquarters in Athens, Benn and his team have established an international slate of projects that center on creating educational value and opportunities for independent filmmakers. Benn is also a Board member of several film and entertainment organizations including Young Entertainment Activists, The Hollywood Climate Summit, Think Film, Treun House Atelier, Climate Culture Hub, SIE Society, and Global Environment Media.

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In a further partnership with the United Nations, Benn is an organizer and sits on the jury for the UN SDG’s in Action Film Festival, and of the SONY Picture This Festival for the Planet with Sony Pictures Television. He has been a lecturer and moderator at film schools, SDG workshops, and festivals including at the Festival de Cannes, Los Cabos International Film Festival, Docs Barcelona, European Festival Academy, Arctic Film Festival, Oslo Film Festival, Sydney Short Film Festival, Prague Film Awards, and Annual Copenhagen Film Festival.

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Benn has also served as a Producer for gaming companies including Sybo Games supporting the most downloaded game in the world Subway Surfers (3 billion downloads), and their digital channel Sybo TV which hosts 5 million subscribers, averages 15 million monthly viewers. For the games mental health charity Safe in our World Benn has been an officer for strategy & partnerships working with groups like Google Play, Ubisoft, XBox, and Electronic Arts. Along with other gaming companies, Benn serves on the communications team and as a mentor of UNEP’s Playing for the Planet Alliance.

As of 2023 Benn wrote the theory of change for Count Us In and Netflix to engage on impact campaigns together, which led to successful campaigns for the Oscar nominated "Don't Look Up", "Breaking Boundaries with David Attenborough", "Down to Earth with Zac Efron", and Barack Obama's Our Great National Parks". Benn served as a producer on the feature documentary “Beautiful Something Left Behind” on child bereavement produced by Good Company Pictures winning the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at SXSW, UNICEF Prize, and was Oscar qualified for the 2021 Academy Awards. Before that, Benn served as an Executive Producer of “Women of the Gulag” which was shortlisted for an Oscar at the Academy Awards in 2019.

As a member of the Producers Guild of America international committee, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and Danmarks Film Akademi, Benn has made international projects a focus of his career. He has also produced entertainment programs for China including the first ever live-stream into China at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards and has produced multiple digital projects for SE Asian outlets.

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Benn’s latest work is in building the live broadcast studio for COP26, executive producing “Duty of Care” on 2021 TIME’s 100 most influential member Roger Cox, and developing the tv series "Next Generation Role Model".