• Editor - Kiss The Cook - Best Horror Comedy, Austin Micro Film Festival 2021

•  Sound Editor - The Chaperone - Best Actor Nominee, LA International Film Fest, Indie Shorts Fest, 2021

• Editor - Here Lies A Drunken A**hole - Best Ensemble Nominee, Garden State Film Fest 2019

Testimonials:

Tom Darbyshire
Executive Creative Director darbyshiretom@gmail.com

Okay, you're an Executive Creative Director at BBDO. For three decades you've worked with big-name editors, all over town. Then, boom, COVID. Everything in the pipeline is instantly dead. Clients want all new stuff, NOW, under impossible conditions. Who do you turn to?

I turned to Ben Willis. I'd worked with Ben since he was an assistant's assistant. Big jobs, small jobs. Six seconds, sixty seconds, six minutes. He made it all great. But suddenly the difficulty level goes sky high. We had to make new work out of old work. Out of stock. Out of chewing gum and Scotch Tape. Over Zoom. By tomorrow. Ben made it all happen with equal parts talent, tenacity and telepathy. Got a big beautiful award-bait idea? Call Ben. Got a high-pressure, low-budget, mean-client job? Call Ben. You'll thank me. Even if Ben doesn't.

Greg Collins,
ECD and Copywriter gregcollinsworks@gmail.com

I first met Ben during my time at BBDO, working on some high-stakes multi-million dollar spots. It was a tough situation that had a ton of cooks in the kitchen, a myriad of special effects to wrangle in post, and, an infinite loop of layers from client to legal to government to navigate through. All of which meant near-endless revisions on the copy, and consequently, the cut. It was a tough gauntlet to run, with lots of moving parts to manage from tip to tail.

I gotta say, Ben totally stepped up and not only nailed the cuts on four different spots, but he also managed and maintained creative integrity on an absolute dizzying myriad of accompanying social posts taken from the cuts. We couldn’t have been more pleased. He was kind, eager, amenable and an absolute pleasure to work with throughout, even under such brutal conditions – especially having never met nor worked together beforehand! I greatly look forward to working with him again.