Sean Ellis

Background

About Sean Ellis

Sean is a Screenwriter, Director, Editor, Producer, and Screenwriting Instructor with New York Film Academy. He has worked in film & television production in Australia and the US since 1994, while writing screenplays. Sean has also directed short films, documentaries, commercials and music videos. Sean began making films while growing up in Sydney, Melbourne and Hong Kong. In 1991, a 25-minute film Sean wrote and directed helped earn him a place in the VCA School of Film and Television, in Melbourne, Australia. Sean made several 16mm short films, while training in Screenwriting, Direction, Editing and Cinematography, graduating with a Bachelor of Film and Television Production, in 1994. In 2006, Sean interned with production companies in Los Angeles and worked as an Assistant at Larger Than Life Productions on the Universal Studios lot. While in LA, Sean frequented screenwriting workshops, seminars and pitch festivals, learning the studio development process. In 2010, Sean’s feature screenplay,"Claws", was a finalist in the Beverly Hills Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. That year, Sean directed and produced a proof-of-concept short, based on the feature screenplay. Since 2011, Sean has developed several feature screenplays in Australia, and in 2014, “The Legend of Yakatutch” was awarded Best Project & Pitch by a panel of international judges, during the 3-D Stereo Media Summit in Liege, Belgium. The screenplay is being adapted into a comic book. Sean's recent projects include a 5-part documentary, filmed in Hong Kong in 2017, and two new screenplays -"Shadow Men”, an Action/Sci-Fi/Thriller (co-written with Kent Hill), and a Crime/Thriller based in New York City.