Mini Biography
Sean is a screenwriter, filmmaker, and artist. His best screenplays are psychological thrillers, including an adaptation of Alice Blanchard's Breathtaker and his original screenplay Nelie Bly, both are currently in development.
Sean is currently writing a new, original thriller "Identity Theft," about an ordinary man whose life is ruined when a mysterious doppelganger steals his identity and begins acting out his darkest impulses.
He is also developing an original TV series, The Echoes, with Producer Gavin Polone.
Sean was recently awarded Los Angeles Short Filmmaking Grant, presented to him by Eastman Kodak at the Directors Guild of America.
As a filmmaker, Sean has always worked from both sides of his brain. While at Brown University, he completed a double major in pure mathematics and studio art. Although he created complex models of 4-dimensional objects and painted vibrant cubist images on massive canvases, students knew him best for his daily cartoon strip in the Brown Daily Herald. After returning to Los Angeles, he spent several years working in the film industry as a set dresser, prop assistant and art director. He began writing and directing his own films in 1992 through his work with Filmmaker's Alliance and continued his studies at USC's school of Cinema/Television, graduating in 1997 with an MFA in production. His Short Film (writer/director), The Shy and the Naked won a grant from the Sloan Foundation as well as a CINE Golden Eagle award. The story investigates the underlying creative similarities of mathematicians and artists while highlighting his interests in expressionist imagery.
After finishing film school, Sean wrote dozens of national commercials, many of which received awards in AdWeek and at ProMax. Like his daily cartoon strips, these spots allowed him to exploit his somewhat bizarre sense of humor. He got his "break" when his first major spec script, _Dorm, The (2003), was purchased by MTV/Paramount. It is a psychological horror film not unlike 'The Shining' set in a freshman dormitory. Since then, while working on genre features (Halloween: Resurrection, Cursed (2004), _Hypercube: Cube 2 (2002), and Masters of Horror: Sick Girl (2006 TV episode)), his involvement with Filmmaker's Alliance has continued, allowing him to consistently hone his directing skills, work with actors and shoot short subjects on film and video. Several of these experimental shorts have played in L.A. festivals.
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