Sean Carley is a New Zealand/Canadian film director based in Auckland where he completed his Master of Fine Arts at Elam School of Fine Arts. He is also a graduate of the renowned Canadian Film Centre in Toronto and has written and directed a range of film and TV projects broadcast in Canada, the United States and around the world. His credits include writing multiple episodes of the GLAAD Award winning series "MTV's Undressed," the hit teen drama "Degrassi the Next Generation," and the surreal sci-fi series "Charlie Jade," filmed entirely in South Africa.
Sean's directorial debut, the 17-minute short film BED BUGS (2006), was an official selection at the acclaimed Rhode Island International Film Festival, the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival and Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. Despite being shot on a shoe-string, Dread Central ( www.dreadcentral.com ) named BED BUGS one of the best horror shorts of 2006, giving it “an unconditional thumbs up.”
He's gone on to write and direct numerous other shorts, including a series of seven shorts entitled WRITERS BLOCK for iThentic and the National Film Board of Canada, and he wrote and picture-edited PALACE for Bravo, starring Lorne Cardinal (Corner Gas, Insomnia) which had its world premiere as the closing night short film at the 2008 ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival. Sean's surreal horror short HEAD COUNT screened as part of the 2009 Lab Cab Festival.
Other recent films include two 3-minute episodes of DOPPELGANGER, commissioned by Rogers Wireless and shot on the Red Camera, and a 7-minute experimental drama, SHORE, shot on location in Mexico with local actors. SHORE has been invited to screen as part of the 2011 Out Takes Film Festival in Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand, in May/June 2011.
In 2008, Sean was selected as an "emerging filmmaker" for the Toronto International Film Festival's Talent Lab, for which he made the 5 minute film POP. 6 BILLION, sponsored by Motorola.
Sean's latest film, SHACKLES AND SWIVELS is a 6-minute abstract narrative shot on the Red Camera, and has been invited to screen at the National Film Archive of New Zealand as part of the Wellington Undgergound Film Festival in March 2013.