Nik Sheehan

Canadian filmmaker Nik Sheehan has made five critically-acclaimed, widely broadcast documentary features. FLicKeR (2008), is the story of artist and writer Brion Gysin, made in the style of its subject. The Drawing Master (2005), is a vérité study of artist and teacher Paul Young. God’s Fool (1997), shot in Morocco, is the story of renegade writer Scott Symons. Symposium: Ladder of Love (1995), revisits Plato’s classic stories of the meaning of love with a cast of well-known gay Canadian artists and writers. Sheehan established an international reputation in 1985 with No Sad Songs, the world’s first major documentary on AIDS. He lives in Vancouver cherishing every moment alive.