Sebastian has worked in film and television for the past seventeen years. Previous to Circus Road, he was head of acquisitions for Allumination FilmWorks which specialized in domestic distribution and foreign sales of independently produced features. While there he oversaw the company’s partnership with the Slamdance Film Festival. Before that, Sebastian was head of development for a Paramount-based production company called Craftsman Films which developed numerous studio projects, including early drafts of the feature film reinvention of the Star Trek franchise.

For three years, Sebastian worked in comedy and drama development at Touchstone Television, the tv production division of the Walt Disney Company and ABC, where he staffed on six produced pilots. He also spent four years with Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner’s production company as an assistant and development executive participating in the making of "Mission Impossible 1-2". He started in the business as an agent's assistant in the motion picture department at ICM.

Sebastian graduated from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. His short film, Silent Rain, received a Student Academy Award and an Emmy. He recently co-produced the independent feature "Small Town Saturday Night" starring Chris Pine. For the past five years, Sebastian has also been a professor at both UCLA and USC teaching about the art and business of film. http://cinema.usc.edu/programs/summer/courses.cfm?s=d&id=34

Sebastian grew up on Westlake Street in Taylor, Michigan.
seb@circusroadfilms.com