---
name: "Sean McAllister"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sean-mcallister"
fi1m_id: "sean-mcallister"
imdb_id: "nm0564001"
tmdb_id: 1064994
wikidata_id: "Q7441211"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "2 May 1965"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T23:30:50.577583+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Sean McAllister

## Identity

Sean McAllister

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sean-mcallister
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sean-mcallister
- **IMDb ID:** nm0564001
- **TMDB ID:** 1064994
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7441211
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_McAllister_(filmmaker), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7441211, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0564001/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1064994

Director. Born 2 May 1965 in Kingston-Upon-Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 2 May 1965, Kingston-Upon-Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_McAllister_(filmmaker), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7441211, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0564001/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1064994

## 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.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, bfi.org.uk, seanmcallister.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *A Syrian Love Story* (2015), Fi1m 80, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/a-syrian-love-story.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *A Northern Soul* (2018), Director
- *A Syrian Love Story* (2015), Director, Writer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/a-syrian-love-story.md)
- *The Reluctant Revolutionary* (2012), Director, Cinematography
- *Japan: A Story of Love and Hate* (2008), Director
- *The Liberace of Baghdad* (2005), Director, Producer, Cinematography, Sound Recordist
- *Settlers* (2000), Director
- *Working for the Enemy* (1997), Producer, Director

## Gallery

- ![Sean McAllister](https://film.one/media/person/4167251/gallery-d6d2f2f9a913.jpg) Sean McAllister — Paul Katzenberger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Sean_mcallister.gif/1280px-Sean_mcallister.gif?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Sean McAllister at DIFF 2016](https://film.one/media/person/4167251/gallery-69c5313f7bd0.jpg) Sean McAllister at DIFF 2016 — Satdeep Gill, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Sean_McAllister_at_DIFF.jpg/1280px-Sean_McAllister_at_DIFF.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Sean McAllister at DIFF 2016](https://film.one/media/person/4167251/gallery-a793b2643de9.jpg) Sean McAllister at DIFF 2016 — Satdeep Gill, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Sean_McAllister_at_DIFF_2016.jpg/1280px-Sean_McAllister_at_DIFF_2016.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- European Film Award for Best Documentary 2015: European Film Award for Best Documentary (nominated), for *A Syrian Love Story*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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