Mad Rocket owner and producer Sean Skelton has worked extensively in both the scripted and unscripted genres throughout his career.  After graduating from the film school at U.C. Santa Barbara, he worked as a writer and/or producer on several independent features, including "The Legend of Ron Jeremy," which was released on Showtime and nominated for Documentary of the Year by the Chicago Film Critics Association. In 2001, he moved to New York where he co-created, produced and directed the MOJO HD documentary TV series "Wall Street Warriors," the most downloaded documentary series on iTunes for two consecutive months. He wrote, produced and directed the Webby-nominated web series “Financially Fit” for Yahoo! Studios and the short doc “Biosphere 2” for Retro Report and the New York Times. 

For the past decade, Sean's focus has been on scripted projects in a variety of genres. His independent TV pilots and short films have garnered a number of television and film festival awards. His short pilot, “Schmuck” (formerly "Vice, Inc."), won Best Web Series Pilot at the New York Television Festival (NYTVF). Other projects he created were finalists at the NYTVF for the Lionsgate/Sea to Sky Co-Development Award, the Samsung Second Screen Initiative, the Bing Decisions Award, the MSN Online Competition and the AMC-Channel 4 Drama Co-Development Award. His most recent pilot script, a science fiction thriller entitled “The Naked Eye,” has been a finalist in such international script competitions as Emerging Screenwriters, Final Draft Big Break and The People's Pilot. His TV pilot/short film “Trouble,” won the awards for Best TV Drama at the Independent Television Festival, Best Writing at the New York Television Festival, Best Comedy Short and Best Actress Short at the NoHo CineFest.

Sean founded Mad Rocket in 2010 and has since been writing, producing and directing filmed content under that label. His work has taken him to Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Alaska and the Caribbean Islands. After spending 14 years in New York City, Sean has returned to his home state of California and currently resides in Los Angeles.

WALL STREET WARRIORS

This documentary TV series about the world of finance, co-created, produced and directed by Sean Skelton, ran for 3 seasons on MOJO HD, becoming the #1 most downloaded documentary series on iTunes for 2 straight months. (2 min trailer)

RAW: THE BAD VEGAN (before she was bad)

Long before the hit Netflix series BAD VEGAN: FAME. FRAUD. FUGITIVES. (and shortly before the crime spree began), Sean produced, shot and edited this sizzle reel with the infamous vegan restauranteur-turned-fugitive Sarma Melngailis (the “Bad Vegan”) when she was merely the successful and glamorous owner of NYC’s extraordinary raw food eatery Pure Food & Wine. Unfortunately for all, the series was not picked up :/

BIOSPHERE 2

This short documentary about the participants in the controversial Biosphere 2 project in Tucson, Arizona was produced for Retro Report and the New York Times. (10 min doc)

FINANCIALLY FIT

Mad Rocket producer Sean Skelton wrote, produced and directed 20 episodes of this Webby-nominated personal finance series for Yahoo! Studios. (4 min episode)