“A portrait of abstract art’s great showman.”
Unstoppable: Sean Scully & the Art of Everything
by Nick Willing • 2019 • 84’ • UK
Credits
Director:
Nick Willing
Producer:
Michele Camarda
A year in the life of Sean Scully, one of the world’s richest painters, as he flies around the world to open fifteen major exhibitions, a journey that also reveals his amazing rags to riches life story.
A BBC Arts Commission.
Festivals
DocNYC 2019
Cinema Verite, Iran, 2019
Festival do Rio, 2019
Brussells Art Film Festival, 2019
Epos Art Film Festival, Israel, 2019
Hamptons Doc Film Festival 2020
Press
“A portrait of abstract art’s great showman.”
— The Financial Times
Filmmaker’s Biography
Writer/Director Nick Willing has a very varied filmography. Although he is perhaps best known for his popular fantasy TV shows, he’s also made theatrically released movies, thrillers, social realist dramas, and more recently, feature documentaries. The one common thread is his fascination with innovative storytelling. In SECRETS & STORIES, Nick spent a year interviewing and filming his mother, the painter Paula Rego, to better understand her and her work and discovered that she has kept major secrets about her life from him, secrets that helped explain much of her life and his. The experience was do affecting that it’s hugely developed Nick’s interest in the intimate and insightful power of documentary. The film won both the Grierson and RTS awards for best Arts program and encouraged him to stay in the media to make UNSTOPPABLE: Sean Scully & the Art of Everything, an equally probing and revelatory film about the outspoken abstract painter.
