Sean Buckelew

Directing

Biography

Sean Buckelew is an award-winning animator and director based in Los Angeles, California. He received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Experimental Animation and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2019, he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Sean is currently a writer and co-executive producer on Scavengers Reign, a forthcoming animated series for HBOMax. He is also president of the board of directors and head programmer at the GLAS Animation Festival, held annually in Berkeley, CA.

Known For

8.5

When a deep space freighter is damaged by a solar flare its surviving crew are stranded on a beautiful and unforgiving planet. They begin to learn the true nature of this planet as they try to survive long enough to escape or be rescued.

Scavengers Reign

2023Series

8.4

Former high school lab partners Marshall and Frances begin to unravel a conspiracy involving big pharma and the federal government to suppress knowledge of a rare mushroom that may hold the key to curing all the world’s diseases.

Common Side Effects

2025Series

5.0

A malfunction at a CIA press event causes a Predator drone installed with an ethical AI personality to go rogue as it attempts to understand its purpose in the world.

Drone

2022Movie

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In Late Night Work Club's 2nd project, animators from around the world come together to create an anthology of animated shorts centered around the theme 'Strangers'. Released on Vimeo.com.

Strangers

2016Movie

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A collaboration with Thomas Middleditch

Mitch

2021Movie

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Filmmaker Sean Buckelew tries to sign up for an account, only to be confronted with the fact that our fear of technology is actually based on a reflection of our own cruel, morally compromised, and violent behavior.