Films

Documentary, drama and portrait films for television, festivals and cinema, in English, French and German.

• 01When the Sky Fell Down: The Myth of Guy BourdinA theatrical feature documentary on the life, work and mythology of Guy Bourdin, with original interviews from Annie Leibovitz to Tom Ford.Feature documentary · In developmentProject
• 02Guy Bourdin: Image MakerSean assisted Bourdin in the 1980s, then spent a decade gathering the voices of those who knew him. Chosen by ARTE for Les Rencontres d’Arles.2021 · 52 minTitle sequenceProject
• 03Chemical RestraintAcross aged care, elderly people with no psychotic illness are given powerful antipsychotic drugs to keep them quiet. A feature documentary on what that sedation does to the body and mind, and who it really serves.Feature documentaryProject
• 04PBT2A short hybrid documentary on two people losing language in two different ways, and PBT2, an experimental drug at the centre of the search to understand the ageing mind.Sundance InstituteProject
• 05Cuba UndercoverCuba, 1994. The US embargo is at its harshest. Sean Brandt drives the length of the island with a Cuban-born engineer, filming entirely undercover. It went to air in prime time to an estimated 20 million viewers.ABC AmericaProject
• 06Death of a ManParis. A man moves through the city like a shadow of himself. Shot on Super 16 in French: a harrowing portrait of loneliness, betrayal, desperation and hope.French language and productionProject
• 07ElisabethIn the grey edges of former East Berlin, a young German girl breaks a silence that has outlived the regime around her.German language and productionProject
• 08A Train of ThoughtBetween departure and arrival lies the true journey. Black-and-white photographs and film on travel, memory and the self in motion.Project
• 09Reef RightsAn international underwater odyssey across the world’s great reef systems. What happens when the coral reefs die? The ocean dies, and when the ocean dies, so does humanity.Feature documentaryProject
• 10The TerritoriansA feature documentary in search of the last of the true Territorians, the men and women who carved lives out of Australia’s Top End frontier.Feature documentaryProject
• 11Highway AboveWith almost no flying experience, Sean Brandt takes off from Melbourne in a tiny two-seater ultralight and sets out to circle a continent: 12,000 kilometres, 37 flights.Project
• 12The Silent JunglesOne filmmaker sets out to find why the jungles of South East Asia have fallen silent, and finds that almost every living creature has been taken.Feature documentaryProject
• 13South Sudan: A New BeginningThree young Australians were born in Sudan and, as very young children, made the journey to Australia alone. Now, just weeks after South Sudan becomes the world’s newest nation in July 2011, they return to the places where they were born. Filmmaker Sean Brandt travels with them across a country only weeks old, as they search for the relatives they were separated from as children. It is a journey of reunion and loss, of belonging to two homelands, and of a people taking their first steps as a free nation.Film coming soon