Amber Sealey

Amber Sealey is an award-winning filmmaker and actor who was born in England and raised in New Mexico. Her most recent film, NO LIGHT AND NO LAND ANYWHERE, had its world premiere at the LA Film Festival where it won a Special Jury Award and IndieWire said the film could “further cement Sealey’s reputation as one of the most promising directors of female-driven stories working the U.S. today.” NO LIGHT AND NO LAND ANYWHERE, Executive Produced by Miranda July, went on to receive the Indie Vision Breakthrough Feature Film Award at Twin Cities Film Festival, and will be theatrically released in 2017. Her second feature as writer, director, and actor, HOW TO CHEAT, won the Best Performance Award at the LA Film Festival, and won both the Best Narrative Film Award and the Best Acting Award at BendFilm. Critics called it “amazing… laugh-out-loud hilarious” and “one of the most relevant and eloquent portraits of modern marriage to date.” HOW TO CHEAT was distributed by FilmBuff. Her first film, A PLUS D, premiered at Montreal World, where critics said, “Fact and fiction are obliterated… edgy, anguished, funny… The acting is astonishing… I thought of Cassavetes, Winterbottom” and was distributed by IndiePix Films. Amber was selected for Film Independent’s Directing Lab and their Fast Track program with her feature script NEW MEXICAN RAIN. She directed Miranda July (ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW) for her scene in her short film, Somebody, and has worked for director Mike ...

Living in Missouri (2001)

Childhood pals grow up and fall apart at the seams in this dark comedy set in the Midwest. Ryan and Todd have been friends forever, but adulthood proves unfulfilling. Ryan's marriage to Amy is in jeopardy, while Todd lives with his parents and envies Ryan's ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shaun Peterson
CAST:  Connor Ratliff  •  Ian McConnel  •  Christina Puzzo  •  Holmes Osborne

Childhood pals grow up and fall apart at the seams in this dark comedy set in the Midwest. Ryan and Todd have been friends forever, but adulthood proves unfulfilling. Ryan's marriage to Amy is in jeopardy, while Todd lives with his parents and envies Ryan's ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shaun Peterson
CAST:  Connor Ratliff  •  Ian McConnel  •  Christina Puzzo  •  Holmes Osborne

How to Cheat (2011)

A comedy centered on Beth and Mark, a couple struggling to conceive, and Mark's unexpectedly helpful affair with Louise.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Amber Sealey
CAST:  Amber Sealey  •  Kent Osborne  •  Amanda Street

A comedy centered on Beth and Mark, a couple struggling to conceive, and Mark's unexpectedly helpful affair with Louise.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Amber Sealey
CAST:  Amber Sealey  •  Kent Osborne  •  Amanda Street

Silver Bullets (2011)

An actress and her filmmaker boyfriend experience turbulence in their relationship when she accepts a role in a werewolf film.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joe Swanberg
CAST:  Kate Lyn Sheil  •  Ti West  •  Amy Seimetz  •  Joe Swanberg

An actress and her filmmaker boyfriend experience turbulence in their relationship when she accepts a role in a werewolf film.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joe Swanberg
CAST:  Kate Lyn Sheil  •  Ti West  •  Amy Seimetz  •  Joe Swanberg

My Beautiful Son (2001)

Drama - A NYC psychiatrist is diagnosed with leukemia - and when he finds out he was adopted, he travels to England in search of his birth mother and some answers. - Paul Reiser, Amber Sealey, Lachele Carl  (more)

DIRECTION:  Paul Seed
CAST:  Paul Reiser  •  Julie Walters  •  Amy Robbins  •  Olympia Dukakis

Drama - A NYC psychiatrist is diagnosed with leukemia - and when he finds out he was adopted, he travels to England in search of his birth mother and some answers. - Paul Reiser, Amber Sealey, Lachele Carl  (more)

DIRECTION:  Paul Seed
CAST:  Paul Reiser  •  Julie Walters  •  Amy Robbins  •  Olympia Dukakis

Bertie and Elizabeth (2002)

The duke of York, nicknamed Bertie, was born as royal 'spare heir', younger brother to the prince of Wales, and thus expected to spend a relatively private life with his Scottish wife Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon and their daughters, in the shadow of their reigning father, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Giles Foster
CAST:  James Wilby  •  Alan Bates  •  Juliet Aubrey  •  Eileen Atkins

The duke of York, nicknamed Bertie, was born as royal 'spare heir', younger brother to the prince of Wales, and thus expected to spend a relatively private life with his Scottish wife Elisabeth Bowes-Lyon and their daughters, in the shadow of their reigning father, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Giles Foster
CAST:  James Wilby  •  Alan Bates  •  Juliet Aubrey  •  Eileen Atkins

The Good Night (2007)

Thought provokingUpliftingEnjoyable

Gary, a musician, is trapped in an unhappy relationship with his live-in lover, Dora. He becomes enthralled with a beautiful seductress who enters his dreams, and tries to control his dream-state so he can spend more and more time with her. When Gary sees his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jake Paltrow
CAST:  Penélope Cruz  •  Martin Freeman  •  Gwyneth Paltrow  •  Simon Pegg

Gary, a musician, is trapped in an unhappy relationship with his live-in lover, Dora. He becomes enthralled with a beautiful seductress who enters his dreams, and tries to control his dream-state so he can spend more and more time with her. When Gary sees his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jake Paltrow
CAST:  Penélope Cruz  •  Martin Freeman  •  Gwyneth Paltrow  •  Simon Pegg

Big Nothing (2006)

A frustrated, unemployed teacher joins forces with a scammer and his girlfriend in a blackmailing scheme.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean-Baptiste Andrea
CAST:  David Schwimmer  •  Simon Pegg  •  Natascha McElhone  •  Jon Polito

A frustrated, unemployed teacher joins forces with a scammer and his girlfriend in a blackmailing scheme.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean-Baptiste Andrea
CAST:  David Schwimmer  •  Simon Pegg  •  Natascha McElhone  •  Jon Polito

No Light and No Land Anywhere (2017)

Grieving her mother’s death and her own failing marriage, Lexi boards a plane from London to Los Angeles in search of the estranged father who abandoned her when she was three years old. Based out of a seedy Hollywood motel, she follows a tenuous trail of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Amber Sealey
CAST:  Gemma Brockis  •  Jennifer Lafleur  •  David Sullivan  •  Kent Osborne

Grieving her mother’s death and her own failing marriage, Lexi boards a plane from London to Los Angeles in search of the estranged father who abandoned her when she was three years old. Based out of a seedy Hollywood motel, she follows a tenuous trail of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Amber Sealey
CAST:  Gemma Brockis  •  Jennifer Lafleur  •  David Sullivan  •  Kent Osborne

How Does It Start (2019)

With her self-absorbed parents distracted by their recent divorce, 12-year-old Rain is left alone to navigate the complexities of love and adulthood—and learns to do it her own way.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Amber Sealey
CAST:  Lola Wayne Villa  •  Elixa Dean  •  Lola Reid  •  Alex Rubin

With her self-absorbed parents distracted by their recent divorce, 12-year-old Rain is left alone to navigate the complexities of love and adulthood—and learns to do it her own way.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Amber Sealey
CAST:  Lola Wayne Villa  •  Elixa Dean  •  Lola Reid  •  Alex Rubin

A Plus D (2009)

When Alice and Dan meet their connection is undeniable; it's clear they are meant to be. But are they ready for each other? Confined in their small London flat, they magnify their differences, create conflict out of nothing, and slowly tear each other down.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Amber Sealey
CAST:  Amber Sealey  •  Anton Saunders

When Alice and Dan meet their connection is undeniable; it's clear they are meant to be. But are they ready for each other? Confined in their small London flat, they magnify their differences, create conflict out of nothing, and slowly tear each other down.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Amber Sealey
CAST:  Amber Sealey  •  Anton Saunders

No Man of God (2021)

The complicated relationship that formed between the FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier and serial killer Ted Bundy during Bundy's final years on death row.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Amber Sealey
CAST:  Elijah Wood  •  Luke Kirby  •  Aleksa Palladino  •  Robert Patrick

The complicated relationship that formed between the FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier and serial killer Ted Bundy during Bundy's final years on death row.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Amber Sealey
CAST:  Elijah Wood  •  Luke Kirby  •  Aleksa Palladino  •  Robert Patrick

Alfred Hitchcock's Gun (2001)

Remake of Rope  (more)

DIRECTION:  Santiago Manes Moreno
CAST:  Amber Sealey  •  tom lasley  •  Alexa Isbell  •  Jason Heil

Remake of Rope  (more)

DIRECTION:  Santiago Manes Moreno
CAST:  Amber Sealey  •  tom lasley  •  Alexa Isbell  •  Jason Heil

Count Backwards from Ten

A troubled woman gets in touch with her early trauma.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Finlay Robertson
CAST:  Amber Sealey  •  Gemma Brockis  •  Chris Thorpe

A troubled woman gets in touch with her early trauma.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Finlay Robertson
CAST:  Amber Sealey  •  Gemma Brockis  •  Chris Thorpe

Nod If You Understand

Will tell the true story of the relationship between heroic NWA stewardess Tina Mucklow, the mysterious hijacker known as DB Cooper, and the only unsolved case of air piracy in the history of commercial aviation.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Amber Sealey
CAST: 

Will tell the true story of the relationship between heroic NWA stewardess Tina Mucklow, the mysterious hijacker known as DB Cooper, and the only unsolved case of air piracy in the history of commercial aviation.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Amber Sealey
CAST: 

Out of My Mind

Unlike most people, Melody cannot walk or talk, but she is smarter than most of the adults who try to diagnose her. Her classmates dismiss her as mentally challenged but Melody refuses to be defined by cerebral palsy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Amber Sealey
CAST:  Phoebe-Rae Taylor  •  Rosemarie DeWitt  •  Luke Kirby  •  Judith Light

Unlike most people, Melody cannot walk or talk, but she is smarter than most of the adults who try to diagnose her. Her classmates dismiss her as mentally challenged but Melody refuses to be defined by cerebral palsy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Amber Sealey
CAST:  Phoebe-Rae Taylor  •  Rosemarie DeWitt  •  Luke Kirby  •  Judith Light