Sean Cross | |
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Residence | Vail, United States |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | filmmaker, producer, actor, writer, and co-founder of Vail Film Festival and Los Cabos International Film Festival |
Website | http://www.vailfilmfestival.com and http://www.cabosfilmfestival.com |
Sean Cross is an American filmmaker, producer, actor, writer, and co-founder of the Colorado Film Institute, Vail Film Festival and Los Cabos International Film Festival
Sean studied film at New York University. He currently divides his time between Vail, Colorado, and Los_Cabos.
Sean is the brother of Scott Cross, co-founder of the Colorado Film Institute, Vail Film Festival, and Los Cabos International Film Festival.
Sean is a filmmaker and entrepreneur who has spent over a decade working in film. In 2003, Sean co-founded the Colorado Film Institute and the Vail Film Festival with his brother Scott Cross to serve as a platform to educate aspiring filmmakers, showcase unique artistic visions, and to ensure that powerful, creative independent films are seen by the movie-going public. In 2012 Sean co-founded the Los Cabos International Film Festival with his brother Scott Cross and leading businessmen from Mexico.
In 2006, Sean spearheaded the Vail Film Festival's partnership with Film Your Issue, a national issue film contest, in partnership with the American Democracy Project, featuring 30 to 60-second films. Thirty-five semi-finalists were named by the competition, and five winners were selected through a combination of a jury including Walter Cronkite, Brian Williams, then Senator Barack Obama, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman and others. The winning films from the Film Your Issue contest were screened at the Vail Film Festival.