Ben Jian-Lin Del Vecchio is a Chinese American filmmaker from New England.

His practice centers around the collaborative re-telling and re-working of histories (personal, familial, cultural, emotional) towards a 'truer', collective understanding of the world and its times.

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As a documentarian, he prioritizes subjective renderings of identity and history. In han(for Iris Chang), he hoped to siphon the complex, intergenerational effects of the Sino-Japanese war into an experimental, abstract docu-film. 

Ben then wrote/directed two short films for CalAsian Chamber of Commerce in response to #StopAsainHate -- a narrative: “News For Home //家书”, and a documentary “#AAPISTRONG.” Both were shot with an all-AAPI crew, and are being shown in classrooms and workshops across California.

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As a narrative filmmaker, Ben brings a historian's touch to his stories. His short script, “COMFORT”, based on the true story of a Nigerian familiy's navigation of an ICE deportation, was a winner of Hillman Grad’s Rising Voices Initiative and premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.

He is a 2022 Sundance Development Lab finalist (for WHITE GOLD, a re-telling of the Chinese-American immigrant mythos through the Western Genre), and a 2022 Screencraft TV Pilot Competition finalist.
 

His short script “TAYO”, a remembrance/exploration of interracial relationships, was produced by Roman Coppola’s The Director’s Bureau, premiered in the omnibus film THE SEVEN FACES OF JANE, which starred Gillian Jacobs (Community) and premiered at the Bentonville Film Festival.

 

Ben is currently working on his most personal piece yet, MY FATHER'S HOUSE, a narrative dramatic short film that hopes to excavate his own history -- filming took place in his childhood home in New Hampshire in March, and the film is in the final stages of post-production.

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