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Award-winning director, screenwriter, producer, and actor Sean Gullette first won international recognition when he co-wrote and played the lead role in PI, directed by longtime collaborator Darren Aronofsky (re-released by A24 in 2023.) He has since played principal and supporting roles in some twenty films (including Arnold in Requiem for a Dream) and series.

His first feature film as writer-director, 'Traitors' -- about Malika, the frontwoman of an all-girl punk rock band in Tangier, Morocco who gets into hot water with some drug smugglers -- made its world premiere at the Venice film festival, where it won a Special Mention, and screened in competition at Stockholm, Marrakech, Dubai, Tribeca and the Gijon Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award.

Sean developed and executive produced the documentary series 'Black Gold' with Darren Aronofsky's Protozoa, TIME Studios and Paramount +. He directed the episodes "Manson Girls" and "Generation Woodstock," for the landmark ABC-TV series '1969' and will executive produce and upcoming series from Part2 Pictures and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's Seven Bucks.

Gullette is in development on Upland, from his script partly based on the novel by the late Nobel-prize winner Kenzaburo Oe. The announced cast will include Forrest Goodluck and Paul Sparks.

Also on his writer-director slate is Tangier, a "dark sexy thriller series" formerly cast with Kristin Scott Thomas and Jeremy Irons. and has written and directed TV commercials, TV and web content for ABC-TV, MTV, VH1 and Viacom.

He is a screenwriter who has worked with directors including Darren Aronosky, Olivier Megaton and Tom Donahue, and producers including Sarah Green, Audrey Rosenberg, and Alexandra Milchan.

Outside of film, Gullette lives in New York and part time in Tangier, where he founded The 212 Society, a US non-profit which supports cultural and educational projects in Morocco. Gullette's essays, journalism and fiction have been published in magazines including The Face, Spy, Slate, Bidoun, Brill's Content, Gear, Entertainment Weekly, Nejma, and KGB magazine (which he founded as editor and publisher in 1991.) Gullette speaks fluent French and other languages.

3 February 2008 Sean Gullette. Stiletto Magazine (France)

Awards

Sean Gullette

Bratislava International Film Festival

Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival

Gijón International Film Festival

International Film Festival Rotterdam

Stockholm Film Festival

Venice Film Festival

Marrakech International Film Festival

Philadelphia Independent Film Festival, US

Online Film & Television Association

Cyprus Film Days International Festival

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