Benjamin "Benni" Diez[2] is a German filmmaker and electronic musician, known for his darkly themed short films Pressure Bolt and Kingz, and his debut romantic horror comedy feature Stung.
"[6] Diez worked for agencies and production companies in Bavaria, and made his own videos before enrolling at Baden-Württemberg Film Academy, in Ludwigsburg, in 2002, specialising in visual effects and animation.
[9] Ain't It Cool News called Pressure Bolt "stunning" and "quite possibly the best film ever made for under five hundred bucks".
[14] Diez teamed with Biehn again, as screenwriter, to make a short comic horror movie titled Martha (2004) starring Monika Manz [de] and Hermann Schevtschenko.
[11] After graduating with a diploma in visual effects and animation,[8] Diez served as CEO for the Cologne-based production company founded for and named after Kingz from 2008 to 2011.
[11] Diez reused footage from an advertisement made for the International Film School Cologne, Keine billigen Tricks (2009),[23][24] to create a new short of his own, Space Chase.
When Benni Diez read Adam Arresty's script for Stung, it "called" to him, "on a few very profound levels, mainly to my inner child that watched Alien way too young and got messed up in the brain by it a little bit.
[29] Stung is a 2015 German-American independent romantic comic horror film starring Matt O'Leary, Jessica Cook, Lance Henriksen, Clifton Collins Jr., Cecilia Pillado and Eve Slatner.