Film of the Month returns this September with a fresh new look. Cutting the red tape (metaphorically speaking) is award-winning documentarian Sean McAllister.

Sean  is known for his candid, frank films, depicting with extraordinary intimacy the lives of ordinary people who are struggling to survive but are survivors, caught up in political and personal conflict, struggling to make sense of the world we live in. His most recent film, A Syrian Love Story (2015) picked up the Jury Prize at Sheffield Doc/Fest and will be hitting UK cinemas in September. His previous work includes film Liberace of Baghdad (2004), which won the Sundance Jury Prize, and earlier works Working For The Enemy (1997) and The Minders (1998) were both nominated for a Royal Television Society Award.

If you have a short which you would like him to see, head over to Film of the Month to submit before the 14th September.