Sai Kelly

Writer/Director
Director, Cinematographer, Editor and Screenwriter

Belfast, United Kingdom

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February 2024

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About Sai

Sai Kelly is a Northern Irish filmmaker (self-shooting producer-director) who has worked internationally since 2010. He has won awards for short films, directed and shot documentaries for Netflix and even created a music video for Thin Lizzy. Well-versed in many roles of filmmaking he has flown drones with Disney, operated cameras for Van Morrison and HBO and produced an extensive library of corporate videos and commercials.

Alongside his freelance work, he completed a 9 month season teaching Creative Arts & Digital Technologies at Springvale Employment and Learning and is also on the PT lecturing register with Belfast MET to teach Sports Journalism and 2D Animation.

Beyond teaching and producing this next season he plans to focus more on writing for screen and stage. He is looking for a producer/agent interested in his TV and feature film projects and hopes to expand his other connections to move this forward. Sai hosts a new podcast show interested in themes such as fatherlessness, trauma and ptsd with a passion in helping others to heal.

He originally became a filmmaker/storyteller because he wanted to be a counsellor, helping others to heal from past trauma, but soon realised he could have a wider impact utilising cinema when he recognised that movies helped save his soul.

Unique traits: A visual eye for storytelling.

Gender:
Male

Height:
6'

Body type:
Athletic

Hair:
Bald

Hair color:
Other

Eyes:
Green

Ethnicity:
Caucasian

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That Vitamin Movie (2014 - 2016)
Documentary Director / DP A respected documentary maker, hears from a friend, that his long term depression has been helped after watching a video entitled, "Food matters" and following a nutritional protocol involving high doses of vitamins, as outlined by a featured speaker in Foodmatters, by the name of Andrew W Saul. Beattie and Kelly visit Saul and is given an outline of Orthomolecular Medicine, the protocol envisaged by Nobel prize winners and eminent scientists.
Wandering Star (2015)
Film (short) A film by A young man, existentially lost, answers a public phone and is coerced onto a journey of hard revelation about himself and the city in which he lives. Borrowing from first book of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, Dante's Inferno, the film depicts a similar character who has lost the way of the 'true path'. Answering a ringing telephone he finds himself transported to a reality in which he is introduced to three other 'lost souls'. Led by a 'guide' called Virgil, Dante progresses on his journey ultimately realising that he must return to the correct path in life, or end up in torment like the people shown to him.