Biography

Writer/Director Benjamin Morgan

When Benjamin was ten years old, his mother threw him in a U-Haul and moved to Hollywood to pursue a life of fame and glamour.  Her acting career was short-lived, but she ended up in casting.  Through her connections, Benjamin scored some bit parts in commercials, TV shows, and features.  But before long, his mom’s infatuation with white powder sent her to rehab and him back to San Francisco to live with his father.

Benjamin dove headlong into graffiti and break-dancing.  His crew, Fantastic Fource, held down the Bay Area from 1984-1986.  After an arrest for graffiti, his father placed him in an academic school and got him on college track.  He went on to major in Psych and work with at-risk kids in juvenile hall and residential treatment programs.

After Benjamin married his high school sweetheart, a Marine Colonel’s daughter who taught him the value of routine and discipline, he read the book Rebel Without a Crew by Robert Rodriquez.  In spite of a newborn baby in the mix, he plunged into making a movie based on his own experiences in the graffiti subculture.  QUALITY OF LIFE premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival where it won a Jury Award, was released theatrically in New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, and received home video distribution via Universal Studios Home Entertainment.

Benjamin  and his wife have three children.  He enjoys surfing, snowboarding, coaching his kids’ soccer and basketball teams, and running a small regional film festival.

MOTHERS MILK is his second feature.

 

Director spins on his head

Morgan was a founding member of Fantastic Fource the most dominant B-Boy crew in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1984-1986. Fantastic Fource won every major competition held in the Bay Area during that period and was widely respected on the streets as the crew to beat. We didn’t all have video cameras in our pockets back in the day, so this is the only known footage of Benjamin in action. Cherish it…