Sid Bennett (director)

Sid Bennett is a film and television director, producer and writer.

Career
Sid Bennett has written, directed and produced over a hundred hours of mainstream TV programmes in the US, UK and worldwide. His two-hour film Mermaids: The Body Found, a fantasy drama made in documentary-format, netted one of Discovery Channel/Animal Planet's biggest cross-platform audiences in its history. Sid Bennett's other TV highlights include the third and fourth episodes of Prehistoric Park (2006), Predator X (2009), I Shouldn't Be Alive (2005–2012), Man vs. Wild (2010), NASA space documentary Houston, We Have A Problem (2014) and Lucy Worsley's Fireworks For A Tudor Queen (2018). He has received over 20 international awards and nominations for his documentaries and drama. He has also written several award-winning screenplays and scripts, drama and documentary, some of which are in pre-production or already produced.

Sid Bennett made his feature film directorial debut with The Dinosaur Project (2012), a found footage science fiction film. The low-budget, high-concept thriller filmed on location in South Africa initially received mixed reviews, but has since acquired cult movie status.

Since 2019, Sid Bennett has worked for Chimp Productions, the TV company founded by presenter, producer and motoring journalist Richard Hammond  of  Top Gear (2002 TV series) and ''The Grand Tour'. ''