
Sean Carey began his career as a trainee at CAA and later helped launched AOL Originals in 2010 where he lead development, production, marketing and distribution for numerous award-winning doc and scripted series including partnerships and co-productions with Killer Films, Mark Burnett Productions, Tribeca Films, the Jonas Group, and Mandalay Sports Media. As an independent producer, notable projects include the theatrically-released and critically acclaimed documentaries In Search of Greatness featuring Wayne Gretzky, Jerry Rice and Pelé, and Red Army about the Soviet hockey team, Executive Produced by Werner Herzog and Jerry Weintraub, and released by Sony Pictures Classics after premiering at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. In Search of Greatness and Red Army both received WGA nominations for Best Documentary Screenplay. Red Army is ranked in the top 10 sports films of all time according to critics by Business Insider and the #1 Hockey Film by Vice Media. Current projects in development and production include a scripted limited series based on UNLV Coach Jerry Tarkanian and the transformation of Las Vegas across the 1970’s and 1980’s in partnership with Jonah Hill, Drake, Ted Griffin, and Rick Yorn; a feature documentary about the life and candidacy for Sainthood of Freddie Steinmark, the legendary Longhorn who led Texas football to the 1969 National Championship before inspiring America’s War on Cancer, directed by Jared Christopher and a co-production with ESPN/The Longhorn Network; and a scripted television series about the Wayland Baptist College Flying Queens basketball team and the longest winning streak in sports that led to Title IX, in partnership with Jared Christopher, Laverne McKinnon and Kay Cannon, and based on the Texas Monthly HOOP QUEENS article by Skip Hollandsworth.