Production Team

SEAN MCNAMARA

Director

Sean McNamara is an American Director, Writer and Producer of family dramas including the breakout hit feature Soul Surfer.

Sean is wrapping up post production on the film Reagan, a drama based on the life of Ronald Reagan from his childhood through the Hollywood years, Governor of California to his time in the oval office and beyond. It stars Dennis Quaid, Penelope Anne Miller & Jon Voight.

Republic Pictures will release Bau, Artist at War in 2024 nationwide. This is the inspiring true love story of Joseph & Rebecca Bau. Joseph is an artist, forger, holocaust survivor and uses artistic skills in the camps to help hundreds of Jews to escape. Their story was showcased in Schindler’s List by Steven Spielberg.

On Fire starring William H. Macy, John Corbett and Joel Courtney weaves together tragedy, redemption, baseball and a love story. It will be released in theaters nationwide in late 2024.

On a Wing and a Prayer is a true story starring Heather Graham and Dennis Quaid. The MGM/Roma Downey Feature premiered on Easter Sunday on Amazon Prime to record numbers. It is nominated for a Movieguide Award for 2024.

True Spirit for Netflix premiered to audiences worldwide in 2023. It tells the story of Jessica Watson who at 16 circumnavigated the globe on her sailboat Pink Lady.

The King’s Daughter, a historical romance fantasy set at Versailles starring Pierce Brosnan, Kaya Scodelario and William Hurt debuted in theaters in 2022.

Other notable movies include The Miracle Season starring Erin Moriarty, Danika Yarosh, Helen Hunt, Orphan Horse starring Jon Voight, and William Hurt, and Spare Parts starring Marisa Tomei and George Lopez based on the wired magazine article “La Vida Robot.”

Past films include Raise Your Voice starring Hilary Duff, Hoovey, Field of Lost Shoes, Race to Space and many more films and TV shows which have been helmed, written and produced by McNamara.

In 2023 Sean celebrated the 25th anniversary of Brookwell McNamara Entertainment that he co-founded with business partner David Brookwell in 1998. Together they have produced 40 feature films for Paramount Pictures, Republic Pictures, Sony, Tri-Star Pictures, New Line Cinema, Lionsgate Films, Universal Studios to name a few. Their production of TV Movies and series include over500 episodes for Hulu, Netflix, CBS, ABC, The Disney Channel, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network.

In Television, Shadrach will premier in 2024 on Pure Flix. Sean co-created the hit Beyond the Break for MTV Network, and executive produced Even Stevens and That’s So Raven for The Disney Channel. Mr. McNamara won a BAFTA for Even Stevens and is a five-time Emmy Award Nominated Producer for That’s So Raven and Even Stevens.

Sean is a four-time Directors Guild Of America Award Nominee. He won the prestigious Imagen Award for Best Director for Spare Parts and Best Dramatic Feature at the GI Film Festival for Field Of Lost Shoes. Soul Surfer, Spare Parts, and The Miracle Season received many awards including an “A+” Cinema Score.

Sean is known as an “Actors Director.” Working with stars who range from Academy Award Winners such as Helen Hunt, William Hurt, Jon Voight, Marisa Tomei, Mira Sorvino and Nominees like James Woods to major movie stars such as Pierce Brosnan and Dennis Quaid, to the new generation including Shia LaBeouf, Jessica Alba, Erin Moriarty and Danika Yarosh.

Sean lives in Playa Del Rey, California with his loving family which include Christina, three amazing boys: Mark, Dylan, Seamus and his two Golden Retrievers, Bella and Blue.

ABOUT SEAN

KIRKPATRICK & KINSLOW PRODUCTIONS

LEAD PRODUCERS

Will To Win Movie Producers
Russ Kirkpatrick (left) and Andy Kinslow (right)

ABOUT KIRKPATRICK & KINSLOW

Kirkpatrick & Kinslow Productions is an Emmy® Award-winning film production company, producing feature length movies, documentaries and content for television.

The company is releasing its 4th feature documentary. Susan was filmed over the course of years in Oklahoma, Florida, Minnesota, Missouri and in New York. It follows a middle-aged woman who secretly, and sometimes humorously, tries to control her mortality, as she stares down a terminal condition that impacts more than 55 million people around the world.

In 2014, Russ Kirkpatrick & Andy Kinslow started the company, then won an Emmy Award for their first film Boomtown: An American Journey. The feature length documentary profiles a traumatic part of mid-America’s war on race in the 1921 Race Massacre -- and other parts of Tulsa, Oklahoma’s history.

Kirkpatrick & Kinslow’s second film, Unlikely Family can be seen on Amazon, Tubi, Plex and other platforms in the USA & other parts of the world, while its third feature length film, The Sound Of Identity is now available on Apple TV, Roku, DIRECTV, and other platforms in the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Belgium.

Kirkpatrick & Kinslow is in development on its newest feature: Will To Win. The film features a Native American high school baseball player as its heroine, the only girl on the team. Living with one remaining relative, her deeply traditional indigenous grandmother, Skylar Forest struggles with the death of her parents, while facing a bully — the school board president. Skylar meets an unexpected friend from the past, a legendary Hollywood star, who offers his wisdom to help her navigate life’s challenges.

Russ Kirkpatrick, PGA Member, Producers Guild of America (Producers Council), is a director/producer & co-owner of Kirkpatrick & Kinslow Productions, LLC, which produces movies, documentaries, and content for television. Using nearly 30 years of experience in television and radio news, anchoring, reporting and investigative work -- combined with financial services -- he oversees day-to-day operations. Community service is also a key part of the company’s ethos. Among other volunteer roles, Russ recently completed a $6-million-dollar capital campaign for a nonprofit assisting at-risk women, and served for several years on the board of another organization assisting men as they come out of addiction.

ABOUT Russ Kirkpatrick

Andy Kinslow, PGA Member, Producers Guild of America (Producers Council), works full time as co-owner & producer with Kirkpatrick & Kinslow. Previously, he founded KKT Architects, Inc., Tulsa’s largest, locally owned award-winning full-service architecture, interiors, structural and civil engineering firm. Although he’s no longer involved, KKT Architects continues with the same name, under new ownership. His reach into community and passion for the arts extends well beyond his volunteer work with the Tulsa Community College Foundation, Tulsa Ballet, Arts Alliance Tulsa, Tulsa Arts Commission and Fay Jones School of Architecture & Design.