Who are the People at Ross Creek?

1. Name: Sobaz Benjamin Age: 41

2. Art form: Film 3 Video Production

3. What are you doing at Ross Creek? Film Academy

4. What book are you reading now? The Third Jesus

5. What is your current favourite music on your IPOD? Don’t have an IPod. I’m listening to a lot of Kanaan, Clutch and Mary Mary.

6. What is your current favourite website/ podcast? Don’t have a favourite.

7. Which living artist (of any kind) do you most admire? I’m very interested, currently, in a British filmmaker named Steve McQueen. He did a film called hunger.

8. If marooned on a desert island, what

a. book : I don’t know- Not really inspired to that extent by books I’ve read.
b. Movie : Run Lola Run- Great filmmaking and entertaining.
c. Music : Can’t give up now by Mary Mary-it’s inspirational.
d. Artwork: I don’t know-a photograph of my wife, kids, & me.

9. What is your obsession? What it means…what it’s like to be human.

10. What or who is the greatest love of your life? My family.

11. When and where were you happiest? Childhood, England.

12. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? nothing

13. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? Shark

14. What is your most treasured possession? The ability to think for myself. It’s an ongoing struggle though.

15. What is your most annoying habit? Allowing myself to get overwhelmed

16. What quality do you most value in your friends? Honesty

17. Who are your favourite writers? Shakespeare, Toni Morrison, Freud

18. Who is your hero of fiction? Edward in King Lear

19. Who are your current or historical heroes? Malcolm X

20. If your life were a mix tape, what songs would be on it? Lots of Public Enemy,
Mary Mary “ Can’t Give up Now”, Metal hip hop punk rock fusion

21. What is it that you most dislike? Liars

22. What is your motto? Don’t give up

23. What’s your earliest memory of Ross Creek? 2006 the drive up the mountain

24. What the most significant thing you’ve achieved (so far) at Ross Creek? I leave that for others to decide

25. What is your happiest memory of Ross Creek? Running and watching what we’ve created on the last day