Sean Drummond

Sean is a complex screenwriter, creative and conceptual producer and intuitive documentary director, through his own Be Phat Motel Film Company and within South African and international markets. His debut feature film Five Fingers for Marseilles premiered at Toronto International Film Festival, continuing to Fantastic Fest, BFI London Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival and beyond and winning multiple awards including the Africa Movie Academy Awards for Best Film and Best Film in an African Language. His shorts Apocalypse Now Now, Sweetheart and Wide Open and feature documentaries Lost Prophets and Outsider have screened extensively at festivals around the world. Sean is the founding manager of the Cape Town chapter of the shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival, celebrating and awarding South African and international short films yearly, and he sits on the festival's South African and international executive and programming committees, pushing artistic collaboration and exchange between filmmakers from all around the world. He has hosted panels on development, production, finance and distribution around South Africa and has served multiple terms on the Writers' Guild of South Africa's executive council. He produced and hosted three seasons of radio talk show and podcast Space Life and Other Dumb Ideas, focused on science, technology and pop culture. Sadly, it seems science is not his calling; he's resigned to have to live out his dreams of space through his work. He holds an Honours degree in screenwriting and documentary film. He is based in Cape Town, South Africa.