Screenwriting and Filmmaking
His feature film screenwriting projects have included Trinity,Conviction, Monopolis and Kilroy. He wrote and is a producer of Thanksgiving, starring Yolonda Ross, James Urbaniak and Seymour Cassel. He wrote "New York Stories" for Donna Karan's DKNY, and directed the "Von Hummer the 1st" series of promotional spots for VH1, starring James Urbaniak. He produced Nicole Zaray's gender-inverted short film Joe's Day, featuring Deborah Harry. He has also consulted on screenplays for Warner Bros., Paramount, and independent productions. In 2009 Gullette adapted Nobel-Prize winning Japanese author Kenzaburo Oe's novel Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, for a French-Japanese co-production to be directed by Olivier Megaton. IMDB reports Gullette as the screenwriter of the upcoming Megaton film Land of the Living. He produced The 8 with Sarah Riggs and Blaire Dessent; the film was selected for the 2010 Berlin Film Festival.
In 2011 Gullette wrote and directed Traitors (30 mins) "a night in the lives of an all-girl punk band as they illicitly shoot their first music video on the streets of Tangier." The film premiered at the 2011 New York Film Festival and the Sharjah Biennial and went on to festivals including the Mediterranean Short Film Festival and Visions du Reel, in Nyon, Switzerland.
In summer 2012, Gullette directed his first feature film, a 90-minute version of Traitors, starring Chaimae Ben Acha, Soufia Issami, Driss Roukhe and Saleh Bensaleh.
Sean Gullette was announced at the Cannes Film Festival as the writer-director of Tangier, a film in-development set to star Emile Hirsch, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Jeremy Irons, and Tony Shalhoub. Tangier will be produced by Darren Aronofsky's Protozoa Pictures.
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