Andrew Benson, —

The kind of person who will spend three hours finding the perfect song for an edit and consider it time well spent, Andrew Benson approaches filmmaking the way he approaches everything: with patience, quiet intensity, and an ear for rhythm.

Andrew grew up in Regina and studied journalism at the University of Regina, where a documentary he co-created with a friend, *Quiet on the Prairies*, was named a New Media Finalist at the Saskatchewan Film Festival. During school, he picked up a string of awards including the Bill Cameron Award in Journalism, the Saskatchewan Association of Broadcasters Ed Rawlinson Award, and the CTV Journalistic Writing Award. After graduating, he spent four years at Global News, working across writing, reporting, editing, and videography. The kind of daily-deadline environment where you learn to make something look great in a matter of hours, or you don’t last.

As a Cinematographer and Editor with Barbershop, Andrew splits his time between the field and the studio. Behind the camera, he’s focused on composition, framing, and making sure every element in the shot earns its place. In the edit suite, he’s the one quietly sifting through a thousand clips to find the one frame that makes the whole thing click. Coworkers tend to describe him as the calm presence on set, the person you go to when something goes sideways, because he’ll think it through before he reacts.

When he’s not shooting or editing, Andrew is either watching movies with a bag of popcorn, working on his photography, or competing at Ultimate Frisbee Nationals with Team Saskatchewan, which, apparently, he’s pretty good at.