Sébastien Higgins

screenWriter-director

Black and white photo of a man with glasses, a beard, and a hairstyle, wearing a collared shirt with rolled-up sleeves, standing outdoors near a tent or canopy structure, possibly in a forested area, looking down at something out of frame.

■ A co-founder of lonely fire productions,a bilingual production company specializing in short films and cause-based videography, sébastien higgins has been Working in both narrative and documentary since 2015. He directed his first short documentary, The Guests, in 2017, a film about the foreign worker industry in Taiwan.

In 2020, he completed his first feature film, Ta planète natale (Your Home Planet), a coming-of-age film set in a small Franco-Ontarian community. His recent credits include three episodes of the documentary series 180 and the short film, Sunrise Heights.