Sean Mullin is an award-winning screenwriter and film director. His critically-acclaimed feature film debut — Amira & Sam — won numerous film festivals and was distributed theatrically by Drafthouse Films. He is the co-writer and co-producer of the upcoming feature film – Semper Fi – with Academy Award Nominated director Henry-Alex Rubin (Murderball) and Academy Award Nominated producer David Lancaster (Whiplash). He is currently in post-production as a writer/director on a feature-length documentary – Kings of Beer – about the world’s most intense brewmaster competition. Sean has several other projects in various stages of development.

 

Prior to his filmmaking career, Sean served in the military. He was a Captain in the New York Army National Guard – where he was a first responder after the attacks on September 11th, 2001. For almost a year, he spent his days working as the Officer in Charge of the soldiers stationed at Ground Zero – and his nights performing stand-up comedy.  

 

Sean holds an MFA from Columbia University and a B.S. from The United States Military Academy at West Point. He is a member of the WGA and is represented as a writer and director by UTA. Sean currently resides in Los Angeles, where he runs a production company (Five By Eight Productions) and occasionally works as a film professor at USC and AFI.