found: Cashback, 2007(Sean Ellis, director, producer, writer; film not viewed)
found: Internet movie database, May 28, 2008(Sean Ellis; b. 1970 in Brighton, Sussex, England; director, writer, producer)
found: Metro Manila, 2014:title frame (screenplay by Sean Ellis, based on the story by Sean Ellis, cinematography... produced and directed by Sean Ellis)
found: Wikipedia, viewed December 8, 2020(Sean Ellis (born 1970) is a British film director, writer, producer and fashion photographer. He is best known for his films Cashback (2004), The Broken (2008), Metro Manila (2013), in the Tagalog language, and Anthropoid (2016))
found: Interview (magazine), February 4, 2014, viewed online December 8, 2020:Sean Ellis by Noomi Rapage (SE: I did a short [film] in French -- which I didn't speak at the time -- and I really enjoyed the process. So my plan to make Metro Manila was to speak to the actors in English, have the script in English, and then get the actors to translate their lines into Tagalog. Then when the camera was rolling, they would say their lines in Tagalog) - https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/sean-ellis