Filmography
Lets Shop: Istanbul
Direction and Director of Photography: Sean O'Sullivan
Let’s Shop is a global adventure in taste, style and exploration.
Hosted by the charming and elegant Cheryll Gillespie, Let’s Shop is a whirlwind tour of the most exclusive, exciting and famous shopping destinations the world has to offer.
Cheryll has long loved the culture and commerce of Turkey and so on this trip she brings her adult daughter and fellow Interior Designer Samantha Shakura with her for a whirlwind tour of Turkey’s hottest home furnishing and high fashion designers.
Web Link: portal.resourcemedia.com
USC Shoah Foundation Institute
Direction and camera: Sean O'Sullivan
Between 1995 and 2002 the Los Angeles based Shoah Foundation Institute recorded the testimonies of over 50 000 Holocaust survivors worldwide. SOSfilm.com recorded over 60 interviews in South Africa.
Web Link www.usc.edu/vhi
Holocaust Education for Schools
Director: Sean O'Sullivan
Documentary production for history students. The film and accompanying study aid is used in several hundred South African high schools.
THE HOLOCAUST – is a visually compelling documentary (with commentary in English or Afrikaans or Xhosa) that gives a concise historical overview of the Holocaust and focuses on universal lessons that arise out of Holocaust history. The DVD confronts the issues of prejudice, racism, discrimination and human rights violations that led to the persecution of marginalised groups and ultimately to the murder of six million Jewish men, women and children in Nazi-occupied Europe.
Web link: www.ctholocaust.co.za
Another Time Another Place - The Jews of District Six
Co-Director: Sean O'Sullivan
Over a century has passed since Jews began to make their homes in the Cape Town suburb of District Six and memories of their presence has all but disappeared. This film attempts to recover that presence and place it within the kaleidoscope of cultures of what was once Town's most vibrant neighbourhood.
Premier - South African Jewish Museum, Cape Town
Testimony
Production and Direction: Sean O'Sullivan
Five survivors of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen relate their experiences of the Holocaust.
The film is part of the permanent exhibition at the Cape Town Holocaust Centre.
Web Link www.ctholocaust.co.za
