Beverly Sebastian

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Beverly Sebastian
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Occupation Film director
Ferd Sebastian
Born25 July 1933
Travis County, Texas, United States
Died27 March 2022
Occupation Film director

Beverly Sebastian and Ferd Sebastian are American film directors, producers and writers, whose independent films in the 1970s and 1980s were predominantly exploitation pictures similar to the work of Roger Corman and other directors in the 1960s at independent studios like American International Pictures. They were a working couple who collaborated on most aspects of filmmaking together. . [1] [2]

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After directing Running Cool in 1993, she and her husband retired to Florida. As of 2012, Sebastian runs the Greyhound Foundation which saves Greyhound dogs retired from racing, gives them medical assistance and trains them with prisoners. [3] [4]

Director and writer filmography

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References

  1. White, Victoria (April 16, 1993). "The good the bad the redneck". Tampa Bay Times. p. 3.
  2. Free, Erin (July 6, 2023). "Unsung Auteurs: Beverly & Ferd Sebastian". Filmink.
  3. "Interview with Beverly Sebastian about her life and career from 2012". Archived from the original on December 17, 2021. Retrieved June 9, 2016.
  4. "Loose talk loses lives - interview with Ferd Sebastian". Hysteria Lives.