ABOUT

Eron Sheean Biography

Born 1976 in Melbourne, Eron is a writer/director currently working between Germany and Australia. His eclectic background in puppetry, animation, and cinematography has strongly informed his films to date.

His shorts include Fledgling (1999), a model animation film about the first human born from a rocky womb in the desert, Bing (2002) an urban fairytale about an old man that rips out a tooth and transforms it with a railway train, and Fish (2005) the story of a boy that makes treasure out of trash, and meets a girl who thinks she is. Fish screened at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival, and won the Emerging Australian Filmmaker at the Melbourne International Film Festival, and was nominated for a Dendy award at the Sydney International Film Festival.

Eron has also directed the short film William, the story of an indigenous magician, which screened at the 2007 Sundance film festival and won two Grand Jury Prizes at the Montreal First People's Festival - Terres En Vues.

His films have screened and won prizes at many prestigious international film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Telluride, Chicago, Hawaii and Melbourne. In 2003 Eron completed a three-month director’s attachment with the American director Peter Bogdanovich (Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, The Cat’s Meow).

Eron is currently developing a number of feature projects including Red Hair & Rations, the story of a wicked Irish family curse that literally causes a man to fall apart, Red Eye, a fantasy animation about a girl who indulges her greed by manipulating time with snails, development funded through the AFC, and most notably Errors of the Human Body, developed whilst artist-in-resident at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany. Errors of the Human Body is a provocative film about one man’s quest for redemption from his own disturbing past, set within the mysterious world of genetic engineering and developmental biology.