Sean is a screenwriter, producer and occasional director, as well as a development and story executive for the South African and international markets. His debut feature film, Five Fingers for Marseilles, premiered at Toronto International Film Festival, continuing to a multi-year festival run and multiple awards, including five African Academy Movie Awards (including Best Film).
Recent TV work includes Netflix smash hit Unseen, the most watched African programming on the platform in 2023 and the first ever African series to break into the global Top Ten with two seasons simultaneously. His short film Apocalypse Now Now won the SAFTA for Best Short Film and made waves in the international genre scene. A feature version is in development. As a story, creative and finishing consultant, his roster of African and international projects includes films from South, East and West Africa, as well as US-Indian and US-Chinese coproductions, each of which has garnered accolades and awards at festivals the world over, including TIFF and Berlinale, and/or found commercial success.
Sean is the former founding manager of the Cape Town chapter of the Shnit Worldwide Short Film Festival, which celebrated and awarded South African and international short films for a decade, and he spent many years on the festival’s international executive committee, pushing artistic collaboration and exchange between filmmakers from all around the world. He continues to be active in film festival planning and programming on an independent basis, has served multiple terms on the Writers’ Guild of South Africa’s executive council and hosts panels on finance, distribution and development across South Africa.
He is a Durban Film Mart and Durban/Berlinale Talents alumnus and a current Talents script mentor.