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Amber Sealey

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Amber Sealey

Born October 27, 1975 in Brighton, England, UK12 films

Amber Sealey is an award-winning filmmaker and actor who was born in England and raised in New Mexico. Her most recent film, NO LIGHT AND NO LAND ANYWHERE, had its world premiere at the LA Film Festival where it won a Special Jury Award and IndieWire said the film could “further cement Sealey’s reputation as one of the most promising directors of female-driven stories working the U.S. today.”

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NO LIGHT AND NO LAND ANYWHERE, Executive Produced by Miranda July, went on to receive the Indie Vision Breakthrough Feature Film Award at Twin Cities Film Festival, and will be theatrically released in 2017.

Her second feature as writer, director, and actor, HOW TO CHEAT, won the Best Performance Award at the LA Film Festival, and won both the Best Narrative Film Award and the Best Acting Award at BendFilm. Critics called it “amazing… laugh-out-loud hilarious” and “one of the most relevant and eloquent portraits of modern marriage to date.” HOW TO CHEAT was distributed by FilmBuff.

Her first film, A PLUS D, premiered at Montreal World, where critics said, “Fact and fiction are obliterated… edgy, anguished, funny… The acting is astonishing… I thought of Cassavetes, Winterbottom” and was distributed by IndiePix Films.

Amber was selected for Film Independent’s Directing Lab and their Fast Track program with her feature script NEW MEXICAN RAIN. She directed Miranda July (ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW) for her scene in her short film, Somebody, and has worked for director Mike Mills (20TH CENTURY WOMEN) pre-directing his actors for commercials. Amber extensively shadowed director Jamie Babbit on Kay Cannon’s Netflix series “Girlboss,” and shadowed Jill Soloway and Marta Cunningham on Soloway’s Amazon series “Transparent.”

Schooling includes: The University of California, Santa Cruz, The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and The Central School of Speech and Drama.

As a performer and devisor she worked in London for seven years with the award-winning physical theatre company, SHUNT, as well as performing in numerous films and television shows. She is a highly experienced audio book and voice over artist, and teaches a weekly acting class. She lives in LA with her husband and two children.

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Big Nothing posterFirst watchBig Nothing20066.4as Call Center SupervisorA frustrated, unemployed teacher joins forces with a scammer and his girlfriend in a blackmailing scheme.View film

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Filmography

12 films as actor
  1. TBACount Backwards from TenPriscilla
  2. 2011Silver BulletsCasting Director
  3. 2011How to CheatBeth
  4. 2009A Plus DAlice
  5. 2007The Good NightTerry
  6. 2006Big NothingCall Center Supervisor
  7. 2005The Secretary Who Stole £4 MillionTerri Voight
  8. 2005HeatwaveErica Kay
  9. 2002Bertie and ElizabethWallis Simpson
  10. 2001Alfred Hitchcock's Gun
  11. 2001Strange RelationsEllen
  12. 2001Living in MissouriLucy