Sean McAllister: Seminars, Masterclasses & Workshops
Seminars, Masterclasses & Workshops:
- → BritFilms TV - A new PAL Lab programme has been launched which, for the first time, will bring together screenwriters, filmmakers and journalists to develop features and feature documentaries from a factual source. Collaborators include screenwriter Toni Grisoni, whose credits include In This World, and award-winning documentary filmmakers Angus McQueen and Sean McAllister.
- → London Film School: Documentary Masterclass - Sean McAllister, a winner at Sundance for his film The Liberace of Baghdad presents Working for the Enemy (1997, 65mins). Followed by Q & A.
- → ICA Masterclass - DocHouse and The Grierson Trust Present A Celebration of British Documentary. A series of six Masterclasses with distinguished British documentary filmmakers. Each filmmaker will show their rarely seen early work alongside new documentaries and discuss the influences and inspirations that have shaped their careers.
- → OneWorld 2005 - During this open seminar six directors from the Czech Republic, Germany and Great Britain will attempt to illustrate general questions of the documentary genre in contemporary Europe through examples from their own productions. Directors will present their projects. Following each presentation questions and answers will be dealt with. Throughout the seminar, directors will be asked by the moderators to explain how they got the idea for their projects, to summarize the basic film facts, to describe their dream documentary, and to introduce the "documentary filmmaking tradition" of their country.
- → European Film College (Ebeltoft - Denmark): Doc Project 08 - The Liberace of Baghdad was screened and discussed. This was followed by a 3 day workshop of practical training explaining the whole film making process. Subjects covered included the 'commissioning process', finding a subject', and 'camera techniques'. Individual films and projects by the students were also reviewed by Sean McAllister.
- Sean McAllister regularly appears on discussion panels, attends Q&A sessions and leads workshops at festivals, films schools and for a wide variety of institutions - many on a regular basis. A selected listing follows.
- → National Film and Television School
- → Documentary Film makers Group
- → Oxford University
- → Lincolnshire and Humberside Media School
- → Salford University
- → Havanna Film and TV School
- → Copenhagen Documentary Festival
- → Tel Aviv Documentary Festival
- → Helsinki Documentary Festival
- → Stockholm Documentary Festival
- → Budapest Human Rights Festival
- → Warsaw Human Rights Festival
