Sean Horlor

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Sean Horlor
Born (1981-01-11) January 11, 1981 (age 40)
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Alma materUniversity of Victoria
Occupation
Years active2007–present
Websiteseanandsteve.ca

Sean Horlor (born January 11, 1981) is a Canadian film director, film producer, poet, actor, television producer, columnist and blogger.

Early life[]

Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Horlor grew up in Victoria, British Columbia. He has an undergraduate degree in fine arts from the University of Victoria.[1]

Personal life[]

Horlor is gay and currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia.[2]

Career[]

Horlor is also a filmmaker, writer, poet, and actor who works in film and television.[3][4] Horlor is the author of Made Beautiful by Use (2007), published by Signature Editions.[5][6] He is best known as the co-host and co-creator of Don't Quit Your Gay Job, an original Canadian comedy television series that was premiered on OUTtv in 2009.[7]

He is a co-founder and co-owner with Steve J. Adams of Nootka St. Film Company[8] based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Horlor and Adams have written, directed, and produced several short films together including The Day Don Died about the death and resurrection of a jazz singer on Easter Weekend[9] and Brunch Queen about a gay couple who own an infamous insult diner in Vancouver.[10]

Horlor and Adams premiered their debut feature documentary Someone Like Me at the 2021 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival,[11] where it won a Rogers Audience Award and finished as a Top 5 Audience Favourite for the festival.[12] Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, the film follows eleven strangers from Vancouver's LGBTQ community over fifteen months after they unite to help a queer youth escape life-threatening violence in Uganda.[13]

Acting[]

Don't Quit Your Gay Job is a half-hour reality series broadcast on OUTtv in Canada[14] and Europe.[15] Each episode features Sean Horlor competing with his friend Rob Easton to see who can be the most successful at stereotypical gay jobs.[16] The first season of the show in 2009 has six episodes about jobs as bus driver, stripper, equestrian, dominatrix, model and drag. The second season featured curling, hockey, the police and extreme wrestling.[17]

Writing[]

In 2003, Horlor collaborated with the Vancouver poet Matt Rader and the illustrator James Kingsley to publish Our Mission, Our Moment through Rader's publishing company, Mosquito Press. A hand-bound chapbook, Our Mission, Our Moment contains eight poetic transpositions of the speeches of George W. Bush.

His poem "In Praise of Beauty" won first place for poetry in This Magazine's 2006 Great Canadian Literary Hunt[18]<fef>{{cite poem|In Praise of Beauty by Sean Horlor, published by This Magazine in September 2006.</ref> and "St. Brendan and the Isle of Sheep" was a 2006 Editor's Choice in Arc Poetry Magazine's Poem of the Year contest.[19]

His first poetry collection, Made Beautiful by Use, was published by the Winnipeg publisher Signature Editions in 2007. Edited by the poet John Barton, the collection was described as "a striking and, yes, beautiful set of musings on belief, sex, and power".[20] It was longlisted for the 2008 ReLit Awards.[21]

His work also appeared in the groundbreaking Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2007), edited by the poets Billeh Nickerson and John Barton.

Horlor is also a freelance writer. He has written for The Globe and Mail[22] and The Vancouver Sun.[23] He has worked as a speechwriter for Gordon Campbell, the Liberal premier of British Columbia.[24] He wrote Cocked & Loaded, a bi-weekly social column, and also blogged on Up Your Alley for Xtra! West.

Nootka St. Film Company[]

Nootka St. Film Company[25] is a production house established by Sean Horlor in partnership with Steve J. Adams in Vancouver to produce theatrical and television documentaries, series television, and short-form storytelling.[26]

In popular culture[]

In 2010, he competed in an international competition hosted by Tourisme Montréal to "search for the brightest star under the rainbow"[27] and won the first annual Queer of the Year title.[28]

He partnered Steve J. Adams in an episode of Hot Pink Shorts: The Making Of in which they co-directed a short film within one day. In the one-hour show, they were given advice on how to proceed with the short. The result was the seven-minute short Just the Tip.[29] The cast included Morgan David Jones playing Jayson, Kerrie Gee as Kate and Dan Dumsha as Throb. The film was co-produced by Horlor and Adams.

Bibliography[]

  • Our Mission, Our Moment (Mosquito Press, 2003)[30]
  • Made Beautiful by Use (Signature Editions, 2007)[31]

Filmography[]

  • Just The Tip (2012)[32][33]
  • Only One (2016)[34]
  • A Small Part Of Me (2016)[35]
  • Angela (2016)[36]
  • Hunting Giants (2017) [37]
  • Brunch Queen (2018) [38]
  • The Day Don Died (2018) [39]
  • Dear Reader (2021) [40]
  • Someone Like Me (2021) [41]

References[]

  1. ^ "About the author: Sean Horlor". Signature Editions. Archived from the original on 2007-12-13.
  2. ^ "Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams Official site". seanandsteve.ca. Retrieved 2021-03-30.
  3. ^ "Sean Horlor". imdb.com. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  4. ^ Hunter, Aislinn; Horlor, Sean (Spring 2006). "Just Small Town Girl / Just a City Boy". Bookninja. Archived from the original on 2007-08-07. Retrieved June 2, 2021. A critical article co-written by Canadian poet and novelist Aislinn Hunter.
  5. ^ Horlor, Sean. Made Beautiful by Use. Prairie Fire Review of Books. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  6. ^ * Nickerson, Billeh (June 21, 2007). "It's all in the arms". Xtra West. Another online review of Made Beautiful by Use
  7. ^ "Don't Quit Your Gay Job". imdb.com. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  8. ^ "Reel". NOOTKA ST. FILM CO. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  9. ^ "Fake News: What Happened When One Man Discovered He Was Supposed to Be Dead". Zoomer Magazine. April 23, 2019.
  10. ^ "Brunch Queen filmmakers serve up inside look at dynamic duo behind Vancouver's Elbow Room Café". Toronto Star. August 21, 2019.
  11. ^ "Virtual Hot Docs Fest to Open with 'Artificial Immortality'". The Hollywood Reporter. April 23, 2019.
  12. ^ "Top 20 & Rogers Audience Award Winners". hotdocs.ca. May 10, 2021.
  13. ^ Rebecca Dyok, "Former Fort St. James resident to release first feature-length documentary film". Vanderhoof Omineca Express, April 19, 2021.
  14. ^ OUTtv Archived 2011-04-19 at the Wayback Machine
  15. ^ "OUTtv Netherlands". Archived from the original on 2012-03-03. Retrieved 2010-08-22.
  16. ^ The Internet Movie Database
  17. ^ Don't Quit Your Gay Job Facebook fanpage
  18. ^ "The Great Canadian Literary Hunt 2006". This Magazine. Archived from the original on 2011-10-27.
  19. ^ "Arc 57: Table of Contents". Arc Poetry Magazine. Winter 2006. Archived from the original on November 8, 2007.
  20. ^ Uptown Magazine Online
  21. ^ The ReLit Awards
  22. ^ "'In Thailand, a beach of one's own'". The Globe and Mail. December 8, 2012.
  23. ^ "'The magic of Belize'". The Vancouver Sun. March 23, 2015.
  24. ^ It's all in the arms
  25. ^ "Reel". NOOTKA ST. FILM CO. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  26. ^ Nootka St. Film Company official website
  27. ^ "Queer of the Year". 2010.
  28. ^ "Montreal declares 'Queer of the Year' after week of fierce competition". Miami Herald. August 17, 2010.
  29. ^ "Official website of Just the Tip". Archived from the original on 2012-02-17. Retrieved 2012-06-01.
  30. ^ mosquitopress.com
  31. ^ Signature Editions Archived 2007-12-13 at the Wayback Machine
  32. ^ "Just The Tip". IMDB. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  33. ^ "Hot Pink Shorts". IMDB. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  34. ^ "Transitioning In The Middle Of Nowhere". The Atlantic. 2016-08-13. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  35. ^ "About a boy". The Squamish Chief. 2016-05-12. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  36. ^ "Angela". Canadian Filmmaker's Distriubtion Centre. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  37. ^ "Hunting Giants". VIMFF. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  38. ^ "Brunch Queen". Nootka St. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  39. ^ "The Day Don Died". Booooooom. 2019-11-02. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  40. ^ "Dear Reader". Knowledge Network. 2021-03-04. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  41. ^ "Someone Like Me". The National Film Board of Canada. 2021-03-23. Retrieved 2021-03-31.

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