Watch the trailer for SHINERS our new documentary about youth in Appalachia.
GUARANTEED IN GARY - WATCH on PBS YouTube
GOOD DOCS - educational sales - OTHERS BEFORE SELF, LITTLE WOUND'S WARRIORS, KING IN CHICAGO
GUARANTEED IN GARY at Indyshorts and Middlebury New Filmmakers
GUARANTEED IN GARY at Milwaukee Film Festival and Cleveland International Film Festival
"Tibetans in China continue to be imprisoned and tortured and killed, but the refugee community in India remains committed to teaching nonviolence and compassion - others before self." CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"I’m not sure the western obsession with individualism and personal journeys has actually made us happier or more functional in the long term. We worship a person and think they are the best ever or we demonize them as sacrifices for our sins. Our outrage or adulation blinds us to the larger complex reality." KNOCKTURNAL
"where they can model compassionate nonviolent behaviour" WATCH 20 minute interview with Seth, Global Peace Film Festival
"How does a culture survive while under threat from a dominant power?" WEDNESDAY JOURNAL
"this moving, beautifully shot documentary" CINEFILE
LISTEN to HEART OF ALL Lakota Oral History Project and WATCH the video introduction, filmed and edited by Seth.
support or sponsor a student at Tibetan Children's Village HERE
Screening Sunday, March 20, 2022 in the West Village, NYC - Socially Relevant Film Festival - join us for a Q and A after with Seth and Tencho Gyatso TICKETS for Cinema Village
Best Director NOMINEE Seattle Film Festival
Best Karma Award WINNER Awareness Film Festival
Best Socio-Political Film WINNER Helsinki Educational Film Festival
streaming and screening, fall and winter 2021 - Global Peace Film Festival, Awareness Film Festival, Helsinki Educational Film Festival, I Will Tell International Film Festival, ChangeFest
Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago - streaming summer 2021
OTHERS BEFORE SELF on FACEBOOK
LITTLE WOUND'S WARRIORS - "stunningly beautiful" TIMEOUT
"complex and hopeful" BARBARA SCHARRES
"stark, vivid composition" VILLAGE FREE PRESS
"stunning aerial shots" CHICAGO READER
"complex experiences and deep wisdom" CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"respect and practicality, instead of demonizing our opponents" 5th AVENUE JOURNAL
LITTLE WOUND'S WARRIORS on FACEBOOK
Amazon Prime WATCH "This is so valuable!"
Audience Choice, Best Feature Documentary - One Nation Film Festival in Colorado Springs
LITTLE WOUND'S WARRIORS winner of Best Public Service award - American Indian Film Festival
Seth acting in Daniel Nearing's new movie SISTER CARRIE
Films of Complex Faith interview LISTEN Holden Village podcast
CREATIVE WRITING is a "startling drama...truth is a sliding scale" GENE SISKEL FILM CENTER
"tough, provocative, honest and intelligent" WHITE CITY CINEMA
"verisimilitude...got it just right" CHICAGO READER
"Resentment, racism, yearning for fame - they're all roiling" CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"honest, realistic portrayal" GAPERS BLOCK, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
Creative Writing WATCH Amazon Prime
"heightened sense of reality" REEL CHICAGO
"the slipperiness of truth" CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"vulnerable in unexpected ways" OAKPARK.COM
Creative Writing at INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE in L.A. - BEST FEATURE nominee
NewCity Film 50, 2014 SETH MCCLELLAN
GOALIE premieres at Vancouver International Film Festival
CHICAGO HEIGHTS - "brilliant" and on Roger Ebert's Best Art Films of 2010
Seth interviewed in WHITE CITY CINEMA about CHICAGO HEIGHTS
press coverage of BEVEL'S LAST SERMON
OAK LEAVES WEDNESDAYJOURNAL
WATCH BEVEL'S LAST SERMON
King in Chicago WATCH Amazon Prime
Seth McClellan on NPR about KING IN CHICAGO LISTEN
“In every major city you go into now, there is this land grab on one side, and ‘What are we gonna do with poor people?’ on the other side.” CHICAGO READER
"You can't end hate through legislation, but it was a pretty good start." CHICAGO SUN-TIMES© 2024 THORN CREEK PRODUCTIONS