Biografia
Sean Ferrer has spent 40 years working across all facets of motion picture development, production, post-production, and marketing. After a brief sabbatical to establish charities continuing his mother's humanitarian work, he directed and produced the one-man feature documentary Racehoss (2001). Filmed in HDTV, Racehoss is based on Albert Race Sample's successful biography, which Mike Judge is adapting into a feature film. Sean also executive produced the award-winning Australian miniseries Cloudstreet (2011), adapted from Tim Winton's bestselling novel, as well as Living the Blues (2010), a documentary focusing on blues singers and musicians.
Earlier in his career, Sean independently raised the $6 million budget for the film Pretty Hattie's Baby (1991), starring Alfre Woodard, Jill Clayburgh, Allison Elliot, Tess Harper, and Charles S. Dutton. Directed by Ivan Passer, the film is set in the 1950s and explores the relationship between an African American mother and her white adopted daughter. Sean also produced Stranger's Kiss (1983), featuring Victoria Tennant and Peter Coyote (Orion Pictures), and Good to Go (1986), starring Art Garfunkel (Island Pictures).
His additional production credits include serving as 1st Assistant Director on Blood In Blood Out (1993), directed by Taylor Hackford; 2nd Unit UPM/1st AD on Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992); Executive Director on Eye of the Widow (1991), starring F. Murray Abraham, Ben Cross, Rick Young, and Annabel Schofield; 1st AD and 2nd Unit Supervisor on Old Gringo (1989), directed by Luis Puenzo and starring Jane Fonda and Gregory Peck; Associate Producer on Ironweed (1987), directed by Hector Babenco and starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep; and Director of Post-Production, Marketing, and Foreign Servicing for Keith Barish Productions on Light of Day (1987), starring Michael J. Fox, and The Running Man (1987), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Other credits include Treasure of the Moon Goddess (1987) (Hemdale), Bad Manners (1984) (Disney), They All Laughed (1981), starring Audrey Hepburn and John Ritter; One Shoe Makes It Murder (1982), starring Robert Mitchum and Angie Dickinson; and Inchon (1981), directed by Terence Young and featuring Laurence Olivier and Jacqueline Bisset. Sean has also produced music videos for Sade ("Paradise") and Joan Jett ("Light of Day"). He directed the live broadcast and was a founding member of the American Cinema Awards.
Educated in Europe, Sean is fluent in English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.
