Production Team

SEAN MCNAMARA

Director

Sean McNamara is an American Director, Writer, and Producer of family dramas, including the breakout hit features SOUL SURFER, REAGAN and THE MIRACLE SEASON.

The John O’Leary Biopic SOUL ON FIRE, from SONY AFFIRM, stars William H. Macy, John Corbett, and Joel Courtney. This inspirational true-life story weaves together tragedy, redemption, baseball, and a love story. It will be released in theaters nationwide on October 10, 2025.

BAU, ARTIST AT WAR, from PARAMOUNT, REPUBLIC PICTURES & SHOW BIZ DIRECT releases nationwide on September 26, 2025. This is the inspiring true love story of Joseph and Rebecca Bau. Joseph is an artist, forger, and Holocaust survivor who uses his artistic skills in the camps to help hundreds of Jews escape. Steven Spielberg showcased their story in Schindler’s List.

REAGAN, from LIONSGATE, UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL & SHOW BIZ DIRECT, is based on the life of Ronald Reagan from his childhood through his Hollywood years as governor of California to his time in the Oval Office and beyond. It stars Dennis Quaid, Penelope Ann Miller & Jon Voight and was released in 2700 theaters on August 30, 2024.

ON A WING AND A PRAYER is a true story starring Heather Graham and Dennis Quaid. The MGM/Roma Downey Feature premiered on Easter Sunday on AMAZON PRIME to record numbers. Dennis Quaid won Best Actor for his performance at the Movie-guide Awards 2024.

TRUE SPIRIT for NETFLIX premiered to audiences worldwide in 2023. It tells the story of Jessica Watson, who, at 16, circumnavigated the globe on her sailboat Pink Lady.

THE KING’S DAUGHTER, a historical romance fantasy set at Versailles starring Pierce Brosnan, Kaya Scodelario, and William Hurt, debuted in theaters in 2022.

Other notable movies include THE MIRACLE SEASON, starring Erin Moriarty, Danika Yarosh, Helen Hunt, and William Hurt.

SPARE PARTS starring Marisa Tomei, George Lopez and Jamie Lee Curtis based on the Wired magazine article “La Vida Robot.”

Past films include ORPHAN HORSE, starring Jon Voight, RAISE YOUR VOICE, starring Hilary Duff and Rita Wilson, John Corbett and Rebecca De Mornay, HOOVEY, starring Patrick Warburton. McNamara has helmed, written, and produced many films and TV shows, including FIELD OF LOST SHOES starring Jason Isaacs, Tom Skerritt and David Arquette, RACE TO SPACE, starring James Woods and many more.

In 2025 Sean celebrated the 27th anniversary of BROOKWELL MCNAMARA ENTERTAINMENT, that he co-founded with business partner David Brookwell in 1998. Together, they have produced 45 feature films for PARAMOUNT PICTURES, REPUBLIC PICTURES, SONY, TRI-STAR PICTURES, NEW LINE CINEMA, LIONSGATE FILMS, and UNIVERSAL STUDIOS, to name a few. Their Television production of TV Movies, Documentaries and series includes over 500 episodes for HULU, NETFLIX, HALLMARK, CBS, ABC, THE DISNEY CHANNEL, NICKELODEON, and CARTOON NETWORK.

In Television, SHADRACH premiered in July of 2024 on PURE FLIX. Sean Co-Created the hit BEYOND THE BREAK for MTV NETWORKS and executive produced EVEN STEVENS, and THAT’S SO RAVEN for THE DISNEY CHANNEL.

Mr. McNamara won a BAFTA for EVEN STEVENS and is a five-time EMMY AWARD-nominated producer for THAT’S SO RAVEN and EVEN STEVENS. Sean is a four-time DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA AWARD NOMINEE. He won the prestigious IMAGEN AWARD for Best Director for SPARE PARTS and BEST DRAMATIC FEATURE at the GI FILM FESTIVAL for FIELD OF LOST SHOES.

REAGAN received an “A” CinemaScore and 98% VERIFIED HOT on Rotten Tomatoes.

SOUL SURFER, REAGAN, SPARE PARTS, BAU, ARTIST AT WAR and THE MIRACLE SEASON received dozens of Film Festival awards including an “A +” CinemaScores.

Sean is known as an “Actors Director.” Working with stars who range from ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS such as Helen Hunt, William Hurt, Jon Voight, Marisa Tomei, and Mira Sorvino, Jamie Lee Curtis and Nominees like William H. Macy, James Woods to major movie stars such as Pierce Brosnan and Dennis Quaid to the new generation including Shia LaBeouf, Raven Simone, Hilary Duff, Jessica Alba, Erin Moriarty, Jessica Williams and Danika Yarosh.

Sean lives in Playa Del Rey, California.

ABOUT SEAN

KIRKPATRICK & KINSLOW PRODUCTIONS

LEAD PRODUCERS

Will to Win Movie Producers
Russ Kirkpatrick (left) and Andy Kinslow (right)

ABOUT KIRKPATRICK & KINSLOW

Kirkpatrick & Kinslow Productions is an Emmy® Award-winning film production company, producing feature length movies, documentaries and content for television.

The company is releasing its fourth feature documentary Susan, in July 2025, which was filmed over the course of several years in Oklahoma, Florida, Minnesota, Missouri and in New York. It follows a middle-aged woman who secretly, and sometimes humorously, tries to control her mortality, as she stares down a terminal condition that impacts more than 55 million people around the world.

In 2014, Russ Kirkpatrick & Andy Kinslow started the company, then won an Emmy Award for their first film Boomtown: An American Journey. The feature length documentary profiles a traumatic part of mid-America’s war on race in the 1921 Race Massacre -- and other parts of Tulsa, Oklahoma’s history.

Kirkpatrick & Kinslow’s second film, Unlikely Family can be seen on Amazon, Tubi, Plex and other platforms in the USA & other parts of the world, while its third feature length film, The Sound Of Identity is now available on Apple TV, Roku, DIRECTV, and other platforms in the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Belgium.

Kirkpatrick & Kinslow is in development on its newest feature: Will to Win. The film features a Native American high school baseball player as its heroine, the only girl on the team. Living with one remaining relative, her deeply traditional indigenous grandmother, Skylar Forest struggles with the death of her parents, while facing a bully — the school board president. Skylar meets an unexpected friend from the past, a legendary Hollywood star, who offers his wisdom to help her navigate life’s challenges.

A member of the Producers Guild of America, Russ Kirkpatrick is an Emmy Award Winning American Film Producer and Director, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Kirkpatrick is producing and directing multiple film projects simultaneously in different stages of production. His work in filmmaking has taken him from Kyiv, Ukraine and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, to the British Overseas Territories and myriad locations across the continental United States. Using nearly 30 years of experience as a TV & radio news journalist – combined with investments and risk management in financial services – he now oversees day-to-day operations for Kirkpatrick & Kinslow Productions.

ABOUT Russ Kirkpatrick

Andy Kinslow, PGA Member, Producers Guild of America (Producers Council), works full time as co-owner & producer with Kirkpatrick & Kinslow. Previously, he founded KKT Architects, Inc., Tulsa’s largest, locally owned award-winning full-service architecture, interiors, structural and civil engineering firm. Although he’s no longer involved, KKT Architects continues with the same name, under new ownership. His reach into community and passion for the arts extends well beyond his volunteer work with the Tulsa Community College Foundation, Tulsa Ballet, Arts Alliance Tulsa, Tulsa Arts Commission and Fay Jones School of Architecture & Design.