SETH MCCLELLAN

A versatile filmmaker, Seth McClellan has produced, directed, shot, and edited films that have screened at many film festivals, in schools, and streamed and aired on TV. He is sometimes available for hire by the day or project.

Credits include: Guaranteed in Gary (2023, PBS Digital), Heart of All (2022, National Endowment for the Humanities), Others Before Self (2021, "moving, beautifully filmed documentary" CINEFILE), Little Wound's Warriors (2017, "powerful" TimeOut), Creative Writing (2014, "resentment, racism, yearning for fame - they're all roiling" Chicago Sun-Times), Chicago Heights (2010, Roger Ebert's top-ten "BEST ART FILMS of 2010"), King in Chicago (2009, PBS/WTTW).

McClellan teaches at Triton College and lives with his family just west of Chicago, in Oak Park.

His new feature documentary about youth in Appalachia SHINERS premiered in 2025.

His last feature film, OTHERS BEFORE SELF, is about a school for Tibetan refugee children in the Indian Himalayas. Follow "this moving, beautifully filmed documentary" (CineFile) on FACEBOOK.

In 2008, Seth directed, edited and produced KING IN CHICAGO, a feature documentary about Martin Luther King and the Chicago Freedom Movement that screened at 14 festivals and aired on PBS in Chicago and the Education Channel.

In 2010, he co-produced CHICAGO HEIGHTS, an experimental narrative feature adaptation of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, that Roger Ebert called "brilliant" and listed as one of the top-ten Best Art Films of 2010.

In 2014, Seth directed his first fictional feature, CREATIVE WRITING. From the Chicago Reader: "Seth McClellan - who directed his own script and stars as a beleaguered community college instructor - has got it just right."

In 2017, Seth made LITTLE WOUND'S WARRIORS, a documentary about young people on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation that TimeOut Magazine called "stunningly beautiful".

He's directed and produced other films and also freelanced as a writer, producer, camera, and editor.

For Educational Sales and Licensing of his documentaries contact GOOD DOCS at outreach@gooddocs.net

As an actor, Seth has had principal roles in national commercials and lead and supporting roles in films that played festivals, including Sundance. He has an MFA in Independent Film and Digital Imaging from Governors State University and a BFA in Acting from the Hartt School at the University of Hartford. Seth teaches mass communication and digital video at Triton College. He lives in Oak Park, just west of Chicago, with his family.

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