WHO WE ARE
Stuart Lachlan Bennett (Writer/Director/Producer)
Award winning producer/director, Stuart Lachlan Bennett has more than 40 years experience in television and film production. He began his television career in England where he worked as a film editor for BBC Television and graduated from the BBC training program at Ealing Film Studios in London. It was at the BBC where he had instilled in him a commitment to produce world-class films. Stuart has also worked for companies in the USA such as The Discovery Channel, ABC and The Christian Broadcasting Network.
As a producer, director, and writer, Stuart has many film and TV credits to his name. He has produced and directed reality, documentary, magazine and drama productions with international networks such as Chinese Central TV, Russia’s Channel 1 and Japan’s NHK. Stuart served as Regional Director for the Christian Broadcasting Network in Asia where he developed programming for the Asian market and managed television production facilities in Thailand and the Philippines. In addition, he also founded the humanitarian organization Operation Blessing Thailand that continues to provide disaster relief, free medical clinics and fresh water to the region.
In recent years Stuart has produced 3 feature films, Warehouse, Miracle on the Precipice and Life Sentence. In 2025, his documentary films, OutSpoke: A Faith and Endurance Journey and Barnabas and Paul have won many significant awards at film festivals.
Stuart earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree with honors in Film and Television at Leeds University, England and a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Script & Screenwriting from Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Stephan Schultze
Stephan Schultze (p.g.a.) is an accomplished director, producer, showrunner, screenwriter, and educator whose career in filmmaking spans more than 30 years. He has created and produced over a dozen feature films and two television series, all earning distribution through theatrical release, streaming platforms, and/or home entertainment markets. Known for his resourceful creativity and his ability to deliver industry-quality work across genres, Schultze continues to develop cinema inspired by character-driven storytelling and meaningful themes.
Schultze began his career in advertising before relocating to Los Angeles, where he worked his way through the Hollywood production ranks. Throughout his early career, he contributed to major feature film and television productions—including projects under renowned directors James Cameron, Ron Underwood, and Bryan Cranston—and gained experience across nearly every sector of the entertainment industry, from narrative features and television (HBO, Showtime, The Drew Carey Show) to music videos, commercials, industrial films, and independent cinema.
AWARDS
The Thin Place is a sweeping, introspective supernatural drama that fuses spiritual allegory with psychological thriller. Bennett’s writing feels cinematic and literary at once — rich in symbolism, heavy with atmosphere, and clearly crafted by someone deeply engaged with questions of faith, guilt, and redemption. The story’s world, caught between the physical and the metaphysical, invites the reader into a reflective, almost meditative experience rather than a traditional horror narrative.
This is an ambitious, beautifully conceived screenplay — poetic, thoughtful, and emotionally charged. It’s less about plot mechanics than spiritual revelation, which is both its power and its challenge. The Thin Place could stand as a deeply affecting work of art.
Jury Evaluation: Berlin International Screenwriting Festival
We are very happy to announce that we absolutely loved your project. Your knack for detailing was evident. We are expecting more beautiful projects from you in future. Congratulations to your entire team for making this beautiful project possible !
Anne, Festival Coordinator, Swedish International Film Festival
The selection committee was deeply moved by your artistry and technical execution. In a field of exceptionally high-calibre submissions, your project, The Thin Place stood out among the rest.
Raisa, Royal Society of Television and Motion Picture Awards
The Thin Place was selected as a FINALIST at the third year of Oxford Script Awards – Winter Season 2026. Your project was one of the finalist projects chosen from more than 403 submissions.
Oxford Script Awards, U.K.
Your works did not just add to the festival program - they gave it depth, courage and sincerity. We were amazed by how diversely and powerfully you use the language of cinema to talk about important things, raise sensitive topics, touch hearts and open new horizons of audience perception.... you were the ones who left a particularly bright mark - and we are proud that we could witness your triumph. Our festival exists thanks to creators like you. People who are not afraid to try, explore, take risks. Those who see cinema not only as a form, but as a mission - to convey feelings, change perception, awaken thought.
Julien Moreau
Founder & Art Director of Cinema Royale: Paris
Pictures - COMING SOON
Contact us
E-mail: info@thethinplace.com
Further Links
https://www.lachlancg.org/