Sean Martin
Director / Producer / Screenwriter
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Sean Martin
Male
42 years old
The Hotel at the End of the World
Bouvet Island
Last Login: 10/25/2009
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Sean Martin's Film Bio
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| Website | 891filmhouse.com | | Influences | Too many to mention, but among the filmmakers I love are Tarkovsky, Bill Douglas, Herzog, Angelopoulos, Bela Tarr, Kieslowski, Victor Erice. | | Directors | Andrei Tarkovsky, Bill Douglas, Margaret Tait, Humphrey Jennings, Victor Erice, Werner Herzog, Hal Hartley, Orson Welles, | | Festivals | Cannes, Mannheim, Berlin, Galway, Rhode Island, Papua New Guinea, Edinburgh, Raindance, Foyle | | Professional Affiliations | Director's Guild of Great Britain
New Producers Alliance |
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Sean Martin's Interests
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| General | Films, books, poetry, Zen, alchemy, real ale, good whisky, First World War tanks, time travel, heresy, Gnosticism, the Middle Ages, Northern Renaissance painting. | | Music | The Who, Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Led Zeppelin, Anton Bruckner, Sir John Tavener, The Doors, Bob Dylan, The Waterboys, The Pink Fairies, Thin White Rope, Ockeghem, Celibidache, Arvo Part, Tord Gustavsen, P.J. Harvey | | Movies | Tarkovsky, Bill Douglas, Werner Herzog, Hal Hartley, Victor Erice, Kieslowski, Kiarostami, Angelopoulos, Rivette, Orson Welles, Margaret Tait | | Television | Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Magic Roundabout, Paddington, Mr Benn, Have I Got News for You, South Bank Show, The Goodies | | Books | John Burnside, Lindsay Clarke, Raymond Carver, Rilke. | | Heroes | Brian Keenan, Arvo Part, Christy Hartburg, Wittgenstein |
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Sean Martin's Details
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Nyland Hill at twilight | | Ethnicity: | Other | | Religion: | Buddhist | | Zodiac Sign: | Capricorn | | Smoke / Drink: | No / Yes | | Children: | Undecided | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | Filmmaker, Writer |
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Sean Martin's Schools
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Marjon - The College of St Mark & St John
Plymouth, SW
Graduated: 1988
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Film & History
Minor: Religion & Philosophy
Clubs: I ran the Film Society and the Brewing Society.
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Sean Martin's Networking
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Film - Direction - Director
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I'm a director and writer, currently based in the UK. My filmmaking site can be found at www.891filmhouse.com.
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Publishing - Writer - Non-fiction
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I have written 6 non fiction books, and am currently working on my 7th. My writing site can be found at www.sean-martin.net.
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Publishing - Writer - Novelist
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I'm working on a novel, and am a member of Lindsay Clarke's London workshop. My novel is about C17th alchemy, and is based on a series of supposedly true stories. I'm blogging my rather slow progress at http://artistelias.blogspot.com.
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Sean Martin's Latest Blog Entry
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Still Looking for Completion Finance
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Lanterna Magicka: Out Now on DVD and Blu-Ray
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Folie in Final Post
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Grading Folie Started Today
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Mathilda - Sharon Farber
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Sean Martin's Blurbs |
About me:
I'm a Writer & Filmmaker.
We are currently in post on a feature-length drama, FOLIE A DEUX, starring Adam Napier and Christopher Dunne, along with Steve Dineen, Martin Trent and newcomer Sally Scott. Our documentary, LANTERNA MAGICKA: BILL DOUGLAS & THE SECRET HISTORY OF CINEMA was released on DVD in July 2009 as part of the BFI's DVD/Blu-Ray of Bill Douglas's COMRADES.
My most RECENT BOOKS are ANDREI TARKOVSKY (2006), a study of the great Russian director and THE GNOSTICS: THE FIRST CHRISTIAN HERETICS (2006). An earlier tome, THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR: THE HISTORY & MYTHS OF THE LEGENDAR MILITARY ORDER (2004), has done rather well, and a revised edition has just (October 2009) been published in paperback. All are available from Amazon and all good booskhops.
My next book will be NEW WAVES IN CINEMA, due out from Kamera Books in 2010. An illustrated version of my book on the Cathars, retitled CATHARS: THEIR MYTHS AND SECRETS REVEALED, was published by Taschen in French, German, Spanish and Dutch in early 2009. An English edition will appear in 2010.
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Who I'd like to meet:
Private investors interested in getting independent films made, and investing in Folie à Deux in particular ***
Zen Buddhist Masters ***
Clairvoyants ***
Crowley's Secret Chiefs (who may or may not be related to any of the above).
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