Sean McAllister (filmmaker)

Sean McAllister (born 2 May 1965) is a British documentary filmmaker.

Filmography

 * Flyingdales (1988) – Frontier Films
 * Toxic Waste (1988) – Frontier Films
 * Hessle Road (1988) – Frontier Films
 * A Passing Thought (1989) – Frontier Films
 * The Season (1990) – Homemade Films
 * Crematorium (1993) – NFTS
 * Life with Brian (1994) – NFTS
 * Hitting (1995) – NFTS
 * Just People (1995 / 1998) – NFTS / Channel 4
 * Shoot out in Swansea (1997) – Vagabond Films / BBC
 * Working for the Enemy (1997) – Mosaic Films / BBC2
 * The Minders (1998) – BBC Modern Times
 * Settlers (2000) – Channel 4 True Stories
 * Hull's Angel (2002) – Channel 4 True Stories
 * The Liberace of Baghdad (2004) – Tenfoot Films
 * Japan: A Story of Love and Hate (2008) – Tenfoot Films
 * The Reluctant Revolutionary (2012) – Tenfoot Films
 * A Syrian Love Story (2014) – Tenfoot Films
 * A Northern Soul (2018) – Tenfoot Films

Awards

 * Winner, Special Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival 2005
 * Winner, Best Ethnographic/Anthropological Film Boulder International Film Festival
 * Special Jury Prize, Chicago International Documentary Festival
 * Winner, Special award for the most valuable film on refugees, Cinema for Peace Foundation
 * Winner of the Champ-Dollon Women’s Jury Prize at the 22d FIFDH for A Northern Soul.