Shane O'Sullivan (Director, editor, producer)
Shane is an Irish filmmaker, author and academic based in London. His films include three previous feature documentaries exploring contemporary political history which have been broadcast worldwide: RFK Must Die (2008), Killing Oswald (2013) and Children of the Revolution (2010), which premiered at IDFA, was released in 30 Japanese cinemas in 2014 and opened the recent Festival Ciné-Palestine in Paris.
He is the author of two books - Who Killed Bobby? The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy (2008) and The Watergate Burglars (2022) - and a series of articles highlighting parallels between political scandals during the Nixon and Trump presidencies for The Washington Post. He is an Associate Professor and Head of Film and Photography at Kingston School of Art, London, where he leads the Make Film History project, making archive material from BBC Archive and the British and Irish Film Institutes available for creative reuse by students and emerging filmmakers. He has been interviewed about his work by the BBC, CNN, NHK, Sky History, Al Jazeera and Russia Today.
Harry Shearer (Narrator)
Actor…author…director…comedian…musician…political satirist…multi-media artist…radio personality…record company owner…and one of the best “voices” in the business (just ask The Simpsons), Harry Shearer is a comic personality and modern-day renaissance man.
For over three decades, he has enjoyed enormous success and planted the fruits of his talents in the heads of millions worldwide thanks to his voice work for The Simpsons, where he plays a stable of characters: most notably Mr. Burns, Smithers, and insufferable neighbour Ned Flanders.
Movie audiences will know Shearer best for his collaborations with Christopher Guest and friends. The most famous of these is the granddaddy of all mockumentaries, This is Spinal Tap (with Rob Reiner and Michael McKean). The film revealed the concepts of spontaneously combusting drummers and amps that go up to eleven. Other Guest collaborations have included A Mighty Wind and For Your Consideration.
In 2013, Shearer created a groundbreaking TV comedy drama series based on real-life recordings from President Nixon’s Oval Office. Written by and starring Shearer as Richard Nixon, Nixon’s the One was made by one of the most respected and prolific UK TV production companies, Hat Trick and was broadcast to great acclaim on Sky Arts.
Harry Shearer is also known for his bitingly satirical songs and impersonations. He has vocally portrayed every US president of his lifetime, and he has embodied three physically – Donald Trump, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. His last album, The Many Moods of Donald Trump, which explored the dark and often comical recesses of the president’s mind during his time in office, was released in the lead up to the 2020 election.
A celebrated broadcaster, Shearer’s satirical sandbox Le Show, which has recently celebrated its 42nd anniversary, is heard weekly on stations around the world. Shearer also collaborated with writer Tom Leopold and composer Peter Matz to create an original comedy musical about J. Edgar Hoover titled Here Comes J. Edgar!, which has just opened to strong reviews at the King’s Head Theatre in London.
photo by Michael Sherer
photo by Dan Dion
Mauricio d’Orey (Re-recording Mixer)
Mauricio is a Sound Designer and Re-recording Mixer at Mad Sound Studios in Portugal. A graduate of the prestigious MA in Sound Design for Film and Television at the UK’s National Film and Television School, he has worked on many award-winning features, short films and commercials, including The Human Centipede, Una Noche, The Eagleman Stag (Best Animated Short at the 2011 BAFTA awards), Dia de Los Muertos (Best Animated Short at the 2013 Academy Awards), Neon Bull and O’Sullivan’s feature documentaries Children of the Revolution and Killing Oswald.
