He’s received filmmaking grants from Participant Pictures, The Tribeca Institute, The Fledgling Fund, and the True/False Film Festival. In 2010, he founded {group theory}, a collaboration-­driven production studio that creates documentaries, short narratives, cartoons and branded content. He directed and produced WILLIAM AND THE WINDMILL, a feature length documentary about William Kamkwamba, a young windmill inventor from Malawi, which won the Documentary Feature Grand Jury Award at the 2013 South by Southwest Film Festival. In 2013, Filmmaker Magazine named Ben among the “25 New Faces of Independent Film”. Nabors co-wrote and produced Palimpsest, a narrative short that won a Special Jury Prize at at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013, which he is now developing into a scripted feature.