BLOOD PACT, the genre-bending horror western by Carson City screenwriter Sean Mick, has lassoed top honors at the 2025 Cordillera International Film Festival, taking home the coveted Best Genre Feature Screenplay award.
A gripping fusion of frontier grit and supernatural suspense, BLOOD PACT wowed judges with its fearless storytelling and cinematic vision.
A Sonoma State University alum, Sean has carved a distinctive path through Hollywood as a sold, produced, and now award-winning screenwriter. His creative compass is guided by the legendary likes of Howard Hawks, Michael Mann, and Sam Peckinpah — filmmakers he reverently calls his “Patron Saints.”
Beyond the page, Sean is helping shape the storytellers of tomorrow as a judge for the Silver State Storytellers’ short film competition series and a screenwriting instructor at Western Nevada College, where he teaches two courses rooted in mythic structure and cinematic craft.
A devotee of Joseph Campbell, Sean brings a deep understanding of narrative archetypes to his classroom, inspiring students to find their own voices as he closes out the 2025 semester and gears up for new classes in 2026.
With BLOOD PACT blazing a trail through the contest circuit and a new generation of writers learning from his expertise, Sean Mick is proving that the West — and the written word — are still very much wild.
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