Sean Horlor

Filmmaker & Author

Sean Horlor is a film director, producer, and author based in Vancouver, Canada.

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Finding Jodi (in production)
director/writer

Finding Jodi is a gripping investigative documentary exploring the 2009 disappearance of 17-year-old Jodi Henrickson on Bowen Island, BC. Currently in production with Studio BRB.

Satan Wants You
director/writer

Award-winning documentary Satan Wants You premiered at SXSW 2023 to critical acclaim, hailed by Variety as “this year’s scariest documentary” and by The New York Times as “a chilling nonfiction movie.” Now streaming on Tubi and CBC Gem.

Someone Like Me
director/writer

Someone Like Me follows the year-long sponsorship of a queer refugee from Uganda to Vancouver. Directed with Steve J. Adams and produced by the National Film Board of Canada, the film won the Rogers Audience Award at Hot Docs and is now streaming on CBC Gem, Knowledge Network, and NFB.ca.

Don't Quit Your Gay Job
creator/host

Don’t Quit Your Gay Job was a hit unscripted comedy series that ran for five seasons on OUTtv in Canada and Europe, and on HereTV in the United States. Each episode explored queer identity through immersive work challenges through immersive work challenges that pushed the limits of representation (and good taste) on TV.

Made Beautiful By Use
author

Made Beautiful by Use is a poetry collection about faith, doubt, and the messy ethics of being alive in the 21st century. Blending satire, sincerity, and a queer eye for contradiction, the book reimagines old myths for a modern world: one that’s just as obsessed with meaning as it is with avoiding it.

I’m a filmmaker and writer based in Vancouver, Canada. My documentaries — Satan Wants You (SXSW) and Someone Like Me (National Film Board of Canada) — have screened globally to (mostly) critical acclaim.I run Nootka Street Film Company with fellow filmmaker Steve J. Adams. I’m also the author of Made Beautiful by Use, and the former host and creator of the reality TV series Don’t Quit Your Gay Job — which is exactly the kind of show you're imagining after reading that title.My practice spans film, television, creative nonfiction, and poetry. I also write essays on memory and the stories we tell ourselves about the past (translation: the absolute worst skeletons in my closet) at Ghost From The Past on Substack.