Director, Toothpaste (2004 South Texas Contest Winner)

"[Scenarios USA] gives the kids as professional experience as [you] can. Its amazing, the talent that Scenarios is attracting."

- Ben Younger

Born and bred in New York, Ben takes a pragmatic approach when it comes to film making. Rather than studying film in a classroom, he chose to get hands-on training by working as a grip on feature films and music videos. A graduate of Queens College with a degree in political science, Younger had worked as both a policy analyst and campaign manager (the youngest ever in NY, at the age of 21). Without the passion for politics that he had for films, Younger refocused his energies on production work. Around the same time, a job interview at a less-than-respectable brokerage house in Long Island became the inspiration for his first screenplay.

At the age of 27, Ben Younger wrote and directed his first film, Boiler Room for New Line, starring Ben Affleck and Giovanni Ribisi. Younger's latest project is Prime, which he wrote and directed. Uma Thurman and Meryl Streep star in this emotional love story set in New York.

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