Sean McAllister (filmmaker)

Sean McAllister (born 2 May 1965) is a British documentary filmmaker.

Filmography

• Flyingdales (1988) – Frontier Films
• Toxic Waste (1988) – Frontier Films
• Hessle Road (1988) – Frontier Films
• A Passing Thought (1989) – Frontier Films
• The Season (1990) – Homemade Films
• Crematorium (1993) – NFTS
• Life with Brian (1994) – NFTS
• Hitting (1995) – NFTS
• Just People (1995 / 1998) – NFTS / Channel 4
• Shoot out in Swansea (1997) – Vagabond Films / BBC
• Working for the Enemy (1997) – Mosaic Films / BBC2
• The Minders (1998) – BBC Modern Times
• Settlers (2000) – Channel 4 True Stories
• Hull's Angel (2002) – Channel 4 True Stories
• The Liberace of Baghdad (2004) – Tenfoot Films
• Japan: A Story of Love and Hate (2008) – Tenfoot Films
• The Reluctant Revolutionary (2012) – Tenfoot Films
• A Syrian Love Story (2014) – Tenfoot Films
• A Northern Soul (2018) – Tenfoot Films

Awards

• Winner, Special Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival 2005
• Winner, Best Ethnographic/Anthropological Film Boulder International Film Festival
• Special Jury Prize, Chicago International Documentary Festival
• Winner, Special award for the most valuable film on refugees, Cinema for Peace Foundation
• Winner of the Champ-Dollon Women’s Jury Prize at the 22d FIFDH for A Northern Soul.

See also

• Lists of directors and producers of documentaries

References

External links

• "McAllister unhinges the nail that sticks out sorely – a review of Japan: A Story of Love and Hate" by Rebecca Frankel, Channel Four, Four Docs, 12 November 2008. retrieved 15 November 2008
• Japan: A Story of Love and Hate by The Passionate Eye for CBC