Sean Hanley

Cinematographer

Industry City, a Brooklyn industrial area, sparks conflict when purchased by global developers. Residents, city officials, and planners clash over differing visions for the city's urban development future.

Emergent City

The cultural roots of coal continue to permeate the rituals of daily life in Appalachia even as its economic power wanes. The journey of a coal miner's daughter exploring the region's dreams and myths, untangling the pain and beauty.

King Coal

A documentary about the response of American schools to gun violence.

Bulletproof

Jewel Streets

Throughout the course of eight years, Coss Marte constructs ConBody, a gym modeled after the exercises he learned while incarcerated.

Conbody VS Everybody

Twelve New Yorkers born across several continents in the early 1960s "visit" every year of their lives in a brash, self-reflexive experiment about what it's meant to live in America over the last half-century.

“A mesmerizing ride through time, a dreamscape full of reflection, filled with inspired use of archival footage, poetry, beautiful cinematography and music. Raises the question of how deeply events affect us, while granting us enough room to crash into our own thoughts, or float on by, rejoicing in the company of our newfound friends.”

Sonya Redi - Screen Slate

Screenings: Museum of Modern Art, Documentary Fortnight (World Premiere), Athens Film & Video Festival, Indie Memphis, Wexner Center for the Art, San Francisco Cinematheque, Mill Valley Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, Union Docs Center for Documentary Art, Museum of the Moving Image

TIP OF MY TONGUE

We watch 14 women who witness and perform with their backs to the camera. In a place where a woman can no longer make decisions about her own body, they speak with the full force of their collective presence.

Contractions

The Price of Freedom is an unflinching look at the gun violence epidemic in America and the role the National Rifle Association, with its outsized political and cultural influence, has played over time. Featuring passionate pleas from President William J. Clinton, Representative Lucy McBath (D-GA) and Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT); NRA Board Member and former NRA President David Keene, and activists on all sides of the issue, the film presents a compelling case for those brave enough to take a stand against the NRA in defense of our communities and collective future.

THE PRICE OF FREEDOM

In New York, a young aimless writer named Ariel bounces back and forth between two equally dysfunctional affairs - one with her depressed married philosophy professor, and the other with an old angry cinematographer.

The Poet and the Professor

Ten & Two is a short film about a Black mother and son on a driving lesson that quickly turns into a survival lesson on police encounters.

Screenings: Athens International Film + Video Festival, Sidewalk Film Festival, New Hampshire Film Festival, Bushwick Film Festival, Cucalorus Film Festival

TEN AND TWO

In "Your Day is My Night", a collective of Chinese performers living in New York City explores the history and meaning of "shiftbeds" through verité conversations, autobiographical monologues and integrated movement pieces.

Your Day Is My Night

NYC poet Paolo Javier invited filmmaker Lynne Sachs to create a film that would speak to one of his poems from his newly published book Court of the Dragon (Nightboat Books). Sachs chose Stanza 10 from Javier's poem 'Starfish Aorta Colussus'. She then decided to collaborate with film artist Sean Hanley in the editing of the film.

Starfish Aorta Colossus

A docu-poetic meditation on New York's oysters and their transformations in the face of an uncertain future.

Holding Back the Tide

Future Forward is a character-driven documentary series featuring people and businesses pioneering industry innovation on the front lines of climate change. Each film profiles visionaries fighting for their dream of a better world, the complex hurdles to igniting corporate change on a global scale, and a contagious hope-and inspiration-for the future.

The Climate Pledge Presents: Future Forward

A compassionate drama about a young, successful theatre couple in New York City who meet their surrogate mother for the first time and embark on a startling and intimate weekend of surprises and emotional revelations.

Human Affairs

A team of young New York City Slam Poets finds its voice as it competes for the National Championship during the summer of 2016.

Don't Be Nice

As Carolina's sense of isolation grows so does her anger at her mother for emotionally anchoring her to their apartment.

Mami

Ada is an unlikeable competitive walker who makes a dress out of toilet paper and has an unfortunate run-in with a hose.

A theatre director's latest project takes on a life of its own when her young star takes her performance too seriously.

Madeline's Madeline

An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance on both sides.

Golden Exits

When you drop off a bag of dirty laundry, who's doing the washing and folding? THE WASHING SOCIETY brings us into New York City laundromats and the experiences of the people who work there by observing these disappearing neighborhood spaces and the continual, intimate labor that happens there.

The Washing Society

Twelve New Yorkers born in the early 1960s across several continents "visit" every year of their lives in a brash, self-reflexive experiment about what it's meant to live in America over the last half century.

Tip of My Tongue

Beach balls. Doctor boners. Farts. Snow. This film, starring Cocoon Central Dance Team, just might have invented its own genre: comedy-dance-sketch-fantasy.

Snowy Bing Bongs Across the North Star Combat Zone

Tough Mudder: The Challenge Within

Lacrosse was born in Akwesasne Mohawk Territory as a sacred game, traditionally reserved for men. Just off the reservation at Salmon River High in Fort Covington, NY an all-Native girls lacrosse team comes together, seeking to be the first Native women's team to bring home a Section Championship.

Keepers of the Game

A heartbroken Christmas-tree salesman returns to New York City hoping to put his past behind him. Living in a trailer and working the night shift, he begins to spiral downwards until the saving of a mysterious woman and some colorful customers rescue him from self-destruction.

Christmas, Again

Two women who grew up together discover they have drifted apart when they retreat to a lake house together.

Queen of Earth

Creative Director: Fredgy Nöel | Production Company: Subjective Inventory