Justin Benoliel
Object & Animal
Justin is an Executive Producer. With a start in music videos his companies have produced close to 300 videos with the likes of Kanye West, Nicki Minaj, Frank Ocean, Drake, Jay-Z, Madonna, The Weeknd, Sia, Travis Scott, John Legend, J-Cole and Vince Staples. As his career turned to brands he has done campaigns for Apple, Beats by Dr Dre, and Nike. In 2014 a campaign for Beats by Dre yielded his team multiple Gold Lions at the Cannes Film Festival. To date Justin has won 5 Cannes Film Festival Awards as well as an AICP Award for best Production. Most recently, Justin was nominated for 2019 Grammy for music video of the year. In October Justin launched Object & Animal in Los Angeles and London with his partners who came out of Stink and Academy Films in London. In year one they were named Ad Age's Production Company to Watch, as well as winning the Best Production Company of the Year at the 2019 UKMVA's. The company's video for FKA Twigs "Cellophane" yielded another Grammy nomination at the 2020 Awards. O&A also made the AdAge A-list in 2022.
Justin is also an executive producer on a current slate of documentary films about social and criminal justice.