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After
spending years backpacking through Asia and South America,
Sean Garrity returned to Winnipeg to begin a career as a
filmmaker and musician in 1997. He quickly created award-winning
music videos for Winnipeg artists including The Wyrd Sisters,
Mark Reeves and Richard Moody. He also completed a number
of documentaries, and short films, including Middle,
which won awards at film festivals in Toronto and Vancouver,
and How Much for a Half Kilo?, which won the Best
Film award at the Calgary Independent Film Festival and
was nominated for a 2001 Blizzard Award. It was later sold
to television.
Buenos
Aires Souvenir, which premiered at the Vancouver International
Film Festival in 2001, and was an official selection in
competition at the 2002 Clermond-Ferrand Short Film Festival,
was sold for broadcast in Canada, France, Portugal and Germany.
His
first feature film, INerTia, was awarded Best First
Feature at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival,
and netted him the Best Director award at the 2001 FilmCan
Festival. The Globe & Mail named him one of three "Canadian
Filmmakers to Watch" in 2002.
Lucid,
Sean Garrity's second feature film, was an official selection
of the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival in the Contemporary
World Cinema program.
Sean
first studied film production and theory at Toronto's York
University and continued his studies at the Instituto de
Arte Cinematografico de Avellaneda in Buenos Aires.
Sean
also works as a bass player, having appeared on half a dozen
CDs, and performs live most weekends in Winnipeg, where
he lives.
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Sean
Garrity
Photo by Yumiko Sakamoto
The
cast of INerTia
Lucid
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