Eron Sheean - Film Maker

Career Highlights

• Attended Beaconhills College from 1988 to 1993 (Years 7 – 12)
• Involved in College musicals and productions where he designed and made prosthetic masks for the actors, including ‘The Wizard of Oz’
• Did freelance work in model-making after leaving school on various television shows
• Has made a series of very successful short films since 1999, winning many awards at local and overseas film festivals including Sundance, Berlin, Telluride, Chicago, Hawaii, Montreal and Melbourne .
• Eron’s successful short films include:
  • Fledgling (1999)
  • Bing (2002)
  • Fish (2005)
  • William (2006)
• In 2003 he completed a three-month director’s attachment with the famous American director, Peter Bogdanovich ( ‘The Last Picture Show’, ‘Paper Moon’ etc. )
• He is currently working as an artist-in-residence at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany