---
name: "Joseph Bennett"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joseph-bennett-1498328"
fi1m_id: "joseph-bennett-1498328"
imdb_id: "nm4497617"
tmdb_id: 1498328
wikidata_id: "Q133894720"
roles: ["Writer","Producer","Director"]
born: "4 February 1986"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T00:36:10.439783+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Joseph Bennett

## Identity

Joseph Bennett

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/joseph-bennett-1498328
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** joseph-bennett-1498328
- **IMDb ID:** nm4497617
- **TMDB ID:** 1498328
- **Wikidata ID:** Q133894720
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133894720, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4497617/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1498328

Writer and producer. Born 4 February 1986.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Producer, Director
- **Born:** 4 February 1986
- **Active:** 2023–present
- **Also known as:** Joe Bennett, جوزيف بينيت, 约瑟夫·本尼特
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 directing, 1 writing
- **Frequently works with:** [Sean Buckelew](https://film.one/person/sean-buckelew.md), [Vincent Tsui](https://film.one/person/vincent-tsui.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133894720, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4497617/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1498328

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Scavengers Reign*](https://film.one/tv/scavengers-reign.md) (86), [*Common Side Effects*](https://film.one/tv/common-side-effects.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Joseph Bennett

> Bennett makes animation that watches things eat other things and waits. *Scavengers Reign* drew an alien planet as a working ecology and let a few people walk across it; the world is the achievement, and the human stories are still catching up.

The Bennett shot is a locked-off camera on a patch of alien ground, held while a plant closes slowly round a small animal and nothing else happens. In *Scavengers Reign* (2023) that patience is the whole method. Something grazes, something lures it, something lays eggs in it, and a castaway works out how to use what is left as a tool. The pleasure is in watching one thing cause the next, and the fear is in realising that the people are the newest animals in the chain. We were more frightened by it than animation usually manages, and the reason is how calmly it is drawn: flat colour, thin dark lines, faces made with a few marks, a plant going about its business with no music telling us to mind.

He came to animation from painting, which shows in those crowded backgrounds, and from short films made quickly and posted online. The planet Vesta first appeared in *Scavengers* (2016), an eight-minute short with no dialogue that he made with Charles Huettner, and the series grew out of it. He wanted the long version silent as well. "There was a period where I wanted to even try to do the series with no dialogue, and the network did not want that," he has said, and he now thinks they were right. We are less sure. The talk is the weakest part of *Scavengers Reign*; the pictures had already said most of it.

The series was created with Huettner and James Merrill and directed by seven people, Bennett among them on the episode 'The Signal', and the look holds across all twelve episodes, which is harder than it sounds. Vincent M. Vu's design gives Vesta the pinks and greens of a coral reef dragged on to land, and Jason Klein cuts slowly, letting a shot run long after most editors would have moved on. The faults are in a writing room six names deep. Kamen's strand circles for several episodes in the middle, his memories of home return until they stop landing, and the series' best idea, that the planet may be using the castaways rather than merely eating them, is said out loud after the drawings had made it plain. Ten episodes would have done it.

Since then Bennett has set up a studio, Green Street Pictures, with Sean Buckelew, Merrill and Benjy Brooke, and co-created *Common Side Effects* (2025) with Steve Hely, which moves him to present-day Earth: a mushroom that cures everything, drug companies, a conspiracy. We have not reviewed it and will not judge it here. Nor have we much to say about *Cake* (2019), an anthology of eighteen of his shorts, comic and experimental, except that it points to a lighter side the castaways never saw. The open question is whether he can draw people as carefully as he draws what eats them. In the meantime we would watch him draw a mushroom for an hour.

## Biography

Joseph Bennett, also credited as Joe Bennett, is an American animator, writer, director and entrepreneur. He co-created the adult animated science-fiction series *Scavengers Reign* (2023) with Charles Huettner, serving as writer, director and executive producer on the Max production. The series is based on their 2016 short film *Scavengers*, which Bennett co-directed and for which he wrote the story.

Bennett is a co-founder of Green Street Pictures. He has also directed and written episodes of the series *Cake* (2019–2021) and created *Common Side Effects* (2025) with Steve Hely.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, animationmagazine.net.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Directed (1)

- *Scavengers Reign* (2023), Fi1m 86, Writer, Director, Executive Producer, Creator — [page](https://film.one/tv/scavengers-reign.md)

### Wrote (1) — the average rests on these

- *Common Side Effects* (2025), Fi1m 80, Writer, Creator, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/common-side-effects.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Haha, You Clowns* (2025), series, Executive Producer
- *Common Side Effects* (2025), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/common-side-effects.md)
- *Scavengers Reign* (2023), series, Executive Producer, Director, Writer, Creator — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/scavengers-reign.md)
- *Derecho* (2021), Director
- *Football* (2021), Writer, Director
- *Mitch* (2021), Director, Writer
- *Birds* (2020), Director, Animation, Background Designer, Writer
- *Jay* (2020), Animation, Storyboard, Director
- *Scavengers* (2016), Writer, Director
- *Odin's Afterbirth* (2015), Director
- *Cody's Positive Affirmations* (2015), Director
- *FROM GOD'S MOUTH TO YOUR EARS* (2014), Animation, Director
- *Out to Lunch* (2014), Director
- *Don't Drink the Water* (2012), Director, Animation, Writer
- *Bedtime Stories with Abraham Willosby* (2010), Director, Animation
- *Dealies*, series, Executive Producer

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