SEAN FINE + ANDREA NIX FINE
Sean and Andrea Fine are Academy Award-nominated directors and three-time Emmy award winners. Sean is a director/cinematographer, and Andrea is a director/writer. For the last decade, they have been producing, directing and shooting documentaries for the finest outlets in television and film. They have worked in over thirty countries, from dangerous war zones to the Arctic Circle, to bring unknown human stories to the screen.

The Fines’ film War/Dance won the 2009 Best Documentary and Best Cinematography Emmy and was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. War/Danceʼs direction, cinematography and story were honored with over eighteen awards, including the Sundance Film Festival's award for Best Documentary Direction. War/Dance tells the amazing story about the power of music to heal and transform the lives of children living Uganda’s war zone.

Currently Fine Films is directing Life According to Sam for HBO, a documentary feature chronicling a mother’s race against time to save her only son from an extremely -

rare and fatal disease that rapidly ages children. They are also directing the second episode of their sports series In The Moment, which takes an intensive look into the forces that create a champion athlete, from the athlete’s own point of view. This second episode will document the six time NBA All-Star and New York Knick Amar'e Stoudemire.

Recently, the Fines directed and produced Inocente, a short documentary about a homeless young artist and her determination to never surrender to the bleakness of her situation. The film has enjoyed a successful festival run, and will now be given a theatrical release, followed by a broadcast run on MTV.

A few of the awards that have honored the Fines’ unique style have been Sundance Film Festival’s Best Documentary Direction; National Emmy Award; Hot Docs Film Festival’s Audience Award; Chicago Film Festival’s Outstanding Cinematography; Full Frame Film Festival’s Audience Award; The Haskell Wexler Award for Cinematography; Philadelphia Film Festival’s Best Director; Best Non-Fiction Film in Michael Moore’s Traverse City Film Festival.