BEN SELKOW is an Emmy®-nominated producer, director, EP, and showrunner passionate about innovative storytelling, unearthing new worlds, social justice, and amplifying powerful voices from the margins. 

Selkow co-founded Good Trouble Studios with James Adolphus, a boutique film and television production company. Their first project is BEING MARY TYLER MOORE in collaboration with Hillman Grad, producer Debra Martin Chase and financier Fifth Season, premiering at SXSW and later on HBO. Currently, Ben is partnered with Adolphus, Lena Waithe and Rishi Rajani to produce GIFTED & BLACK for Amazon Studios, a forthcoming project on the power of Black music through the lens of the Verzuz music battles created by Swizz Beatz and Timbaland during Covid and in response to the uprisings of 2020. 

Ben was co-executive producer for Adam McKay’s Hyperobject-produced series THE INVISIBLE PILOT (HBO) and the Emmy®-nominated 6-part docu-series on QAnon, Q: INTO THE STORM (HBO). Previously, Ben was an executive producer/director for the Emmy®-nominated investigative docu-series TRAFFICKED WITH MARIANA VAN ZELLER (National Geographic Channel) with Muck Media. He was the showrunner, an executive producer and a director on Netflix’s 8-part documentary series on luminary hip hop artists entitled RAPTURE (2018 SXSW Film Festival) partnering with Mass Appeal. Ben directed and produced several episodes of the Emmy® Award-winning series ANTHONY BOURDAIN: PARTS UNKNOWN (CNN), was the series director for BELIEVER WITH REZA ASLAN (CNN), and was a senior producer on the Bourdain travel series THE GETAWAY, directing episodes with Mos Def aka Yasiin Bey, Oscar-winners Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, and Zachary Levi. He co-created and executive produced the 10-part Participant Media docu-series WELCOME TO FAIRFAX produced the environmental thriller documentary DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS (Participant/Topic), which premiered at Hot Docs, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Seattle International Film Festival, and the Audience Award at DOC NYC; directed/produced the feature documentary BURIED ABOVE GROUND (PBS/America ReFramed); produced PRAYER FOR A PERFECT SEASON (HBO Sports) with director Marc Levin; THE CARRIER (PBS/Tribeca Film Festival) with director Maggie Betts; and directed/produced A SUMMER IN THE CAGE (Sundance Channel), his first film. 

Ben is an Honors graduate of Wesleyan University’s Film Studies and African-American Studies programs and a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow.