Sean Donnelly is a filmmaker who works in animation, live action and documentary. He co-created the Comedy Central animated series JEFF & SOME ALIENS which starred Brett Gelman, Malcolm McDowell, Pamela Adlon, Keegan-Michael Key and Christian Slater. He's developed other TV shows with FOX, FX, Comedy Central & Adult Swim.

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While still in film school at NYU, Sean began working on his first feature documentary about two obsessed Tiffany fans called I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW. The film won the best documentary award at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal and played at Slamdance, IDFA, True/False and many other film festivals around the world. It was written about by Rolling Stone, Vice, Buzzfeed, Variety, The New York Times and many others.

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Sean has directed music videos for Bo Burnham, Kirk Hammett from Metallica, Ghost, Tally Hall, The Mountain Goats and was nominated from a MVPA award for a video he co-directed with Jon Watts for The Spinto Band. He's directed commercials for Kate Spade, AOL, Scion, Chanel, and won a Clio award for his LADY AND THE DALE PROMO he directed for HBO.

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Sean founded the animation company, AWESOME + modest, where he has overseen the animation for documentaries such as Netflix's Stamped From the Beginning, HBO's LADY AND THE DALE, Davis Guggenheim's Waiting For Superman and many more.

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When he has time, Sean still likes to make short films for fun and throw them online.

He made a short documentary called QAMOM about his mom's decent into the world of online conspiracy theories that was featured as a Vimeo staff pick and then spread to many other corners of the internet.

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Sean is currently in production on his first animated feature film called RIP OFF.

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You can follow Sean on Instagram, YouTube, Substack, and the platform formerly known as Twitter. If you want to get in touch, you can email him here.