Sebastian Zeck is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, editor and producer based in San Francisco, California. With a career beginning in social and environmental justice, he seeks to blend the craft of filmmaking and storytelling to effect social change. He is the producer, director of photography, and writer of the feature documentary After Antarctica, which follows the life of legendary polar explorer Will Steger and his lifelong journey as an eyewitness to the greatest changes to the polar regions of our planet.
The film has received numerous awards and has been supported by The Sundance Institute, Film Independent, The Library of Congress Ken Burns Prize For Film, and SFFILM, and is available for streaming on Apple TV and Amazon. Sebastian is the producer and director of photography of the upcoming feature documentary A Life Illuminated, which follows the life of pioneering marine biologist Dr. Edie Widder as she embarks on a never-before-seen journey to the bottom of the ocean in search of one of our planet’s greatest mysteries. Sebastian worked in collaboration with the renowned artist JR as the editor of The Chronicles of New York which has been exhibited in museums around the world and was the editor and Director of Photography of The Chronicles of Miami, which was exhibited at Superblue.
He has worked on projects for Netflix, HBO, Google, Adobe, and TIME Magazine and on feature-length films such as Tehachapi, Paper & Glue, Art For Everybody, Jagged, White Hot, Wild Wild Space and Tell Them You Love Me. Sebastian is a 2019 Film Independent Documentary Lab Fellow, a 2020 Film Independent Fast Track Fellow, a 2020 SFFILM FilmHouse Resident, a 2021 Mountainfilm Commitment Grant Recipient, a 2024 SFFILM Invest Fellow, and a 2024 Inaugural Eames Institute Artist-In-Residence.