Benaim has taken part in several productions, including films as Life in nature (2002), In the attic (2003), On the bench (2014, Short Plays series), Bulldog Noise (2004) and the book Panamix.

In 2009 he released Chance[3] beating records in the Panamanian box office with more than 140,000 domestic tickets sold and half a million viewers in the region.

[citation needed] Benaim won the 2011 Japan Skip City D-Cinema Festival Best Screenplay Award and his film was acquired by HBO and Ibermedia TV.

Invasion was selected to represent Panama in the Best Foreign Picture category (now called Best International Feature Film) at the 87th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.

Plaza Catedral made the shortlist for the 94th Academy Awards — becoming the first to do so for Panama, and thus rendering him the only Panamanian director with more than one submission.