Biography
Sean McAllister is a British documentary filmmaker. Born in Kingston upon Hull in 1965, he left school at 16 and worked in factories before training at the National Film and Television School, graduating in 1996.
He has directed films for the BBC and Channel 4. His credits include The Liberace of Baghdad (2004), which won the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, A Syrian Love Story (2015), on which he was also writer, and A Northern Soul (2018). He directed the opening ceremony of Hull’s City of Culture year in 2017.
