Sean Mongie is a screenwriter, visual artist and educator. He graduated from the University currently known as Rhodes with his Honours in English Literature with a distinction. He received his Master’s in Screenwriting with Distinction from the University of Cape Town in 2018, for which he wrote a feature screenplay entitled, Mirage, and a television pilot, Spectacle. For the past year (2018-2019) he has taught screenwriting. He is part of the editorial collective that founded Type/Cast in 2016, an online South African literary journal. The journal has been guest edited by the likes of Lauren Beukes, Yewande Omotoso, Efemia Chela, Bongani Kona and Xabiso Vili. He designs all of the images that appear on the site. Throughout 2018-2022, he directed and produced live music content for Bonj, Siya Makudzeni, Sakhile Moleshe, and Love Sechaba. In 2021, he directed the music video for Casper Stone’s pop song about the male gaze, Freak, and in 2022 Tsholofelo’s pop dirge to Covid, Past Two Years. He was director and editor of the visuals produced and projected for Kieron Jina’s State Theatre Production Rise of the African Queer (2019). He is currently producing an ensemble dramedy pilot called Working on It which explores mental health issues among twenty-somethings in Johannesburg. His sci-fi short The House that Never Sleeps was shortlisted for the 2021 WGSA Muse Awards. The short was developed with the NFVF, and has production funding from the GFC. Both projects have the Presidential Employment Stimulus Package for production in 2023. Sean currently works as a freelance development producer for Emmy award-winning international non-fiction production companies like Icon Films and Red Rock Films International on content for platforms like Netflix, National Geographic and Smithsonian, and copyrights for Digify Africa for clients like Meta, Nedbank and The Dell Foundation. He is passionate about sharing his love of writing and film, and committed to telling authentic South African stories through collaborative ensemble productions