Benn Flore is a Dutch published writer and marketeer with his own agency Florad Fantasy. Today he works on novels, screenplays and every year one (short) movie production on days he isn't playing soccer with his grandchildren. Long time ago he wrote for Dutch tv-comedians and had his cartoons published in newspapers. Benn took up writing again after retrieving from his local marketing company. Five of Flore's books are published, some have been (native) translated into English and adapted into short movies.
Awards starting with his first novel
In 2010 Benn Flore won the Dutch local version of the Roosevelt Award by the Roosevelt Academy with his first novel 'Three Religions, One Killer'. The award was presented by Franklin D. Roosevelts great-grandchildren.
His first screenplay, Just Divorced, to Cannes, Beverly Hills and St. Petersburg
Benn's first screenplay, tragic comedy 'Just Divorced', won the Cannes Golden Plume in 2017. In 2018 it was Official Selected by the prestigious Beverly Hills Film Festival. A short version of the screenplay is adapted into an English audio book and a 23-min. low budget short is produced in the Netherlands with English subtitles. It was screened in Rome, Turin and Hollywoods NoHo Leammle Theater, as well as in St. Petersburg, Sochi and Kiev with Russian subtitles. In St. Petersburg the short won the White Nights Peoples Choice Award.
Benn's second screenplay, Restaurant la Vérité, to Los Angeles, Atlanta, Richmond and Rome
The story continued by writing a second screenplay. 'Restaurant la Vérité, the American Dream' won Los Angeles EDGE November 2019 Award and made to quarter-,semi- or finalist in Rome, Los Angeles, St. Francisco, Atlanta and Richmond. A rewritten version was adapted into a 50 minutes movie released in 2020 and available at Amazon Prime.
Benn's first short, Eyewitness, in Romania and Austin
The 33 pages short Eyewitness won the crime genre of Romania's Let's Make It Competition made it to the Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards Season 6 - 2021 final and was semi finalist in Austin's Table Read Competition 2021.