Sean McKittrick

Sean McKittrick and executive producer Ted Hamm formed Darko Entertainment in 2007 to produce and finance director-driven films by supporting filmmakers with unique voices and helping their films reach a wider audience. The diverse range of Darko films that McKittrick developed and produced include Jason Bateman's directorial debut Bad Words—which starred Bateman as a high school dropout who discovers a loophole that allows him to enter the Golden Quill National Spelling Bee—was picked up for distribution by Focus Features following its premiere at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

Other Darko films include John Ridley's Jimi: All Is by My Side, which starred André Benjamin as Jimi Hendrix in an intimate story of how Jimmy James became the music legend, which premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival; the co-directorial debut of actors/screenwriters Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant's Hell Baby, which starred Rob Corddry and Leslie Bibb as an expectant couple who move into the most haunted house in New Orleans and must call upon the services of the Vatican's elite exorcism team to save them from their demonic baby, and had its world premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival; and writer/director Bobcat Goldthwait's critically acclaimed films God Bless America, which starred Joel Murray, and World's Greatest Dad, which starred the late Robin Williams.

In 2016, McKittrick and Hamm along with Movie Package Company's Ray Mansfield and Shaun Redick formed QC Entertainment, a partnership which finances and produces director-driven films. A one-stop solution entertainment finance and production company, QC develops, produces on set, finances productions, handles sales and distribution and everything in between.

QC projects include Zoe Lister-Jones' directorial debut Band Aid, starring Lister-Jones, Adam Pally and Fred Armisen, centering around a couple who can't stop fighting and embark on a last-ditch effort to save their marriage: turning their fights into songs and starting a band, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in U.S. Dramatic Competition; producing and financing the true-crime thriller Green River Killer, which marked the feature film directorial debut of acclaimed actor Michael Sheen, who also starred in the film based on his script adapted from the award-winning graphic novel; and Burr Steers' Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a fresh twist on Jane Austen's classic released by Screen Gems in 2016.

McKittrick graduated from UCLA, going on to develop and produce Donnie Darko at 24 years of age. The film has gone on to become one of the most successful cult classic films in the past 20 years.

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