Benjamin Harris
Benjamin Harris is Manager for Netflix’ Grow Creative division in Northern and Central Europe (Germany, Sweden, Poland and Benelux). Grow Creative’s objective is to elevate writers, producers and directors who are currently working or will be working with Netflix on local productions in these markets.
Previously, he was Head of Serial Eyes, a postgraduate TV writing program for European writers where he had the privilege of training many of today’s outstanding head writers and show creators.
Before that, he was Assistant Director of the MFA Producers Program at UCLA film school and has taught classes on story development for film and TV, creative producing, and the US media industry.
He has a Ph.D. in Cinema & Media Studies and an M.F.A. in Creative Producing from UCLA and an M.A. in Cinema & Media Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.