Nik Sheehan is a Toronto-based director, writer and producer. Prior to FLicKeR, he made a critically acclaimed and widely broadcast study of artist and teacher Paul Young, The Drawing Master (2005), www.TheDrawingMaster.com.

Earlier acclaimed documentary features, which played in major festivals and were nationally broadcast, include the story of renegade artist Scott Symons in God's Fool (1997), and Symposium: Ladder of Love (1995), a revisiting of Plato's classic with a cast of well-known Canadian artists and writers.

He established an international reputation in 1985 with No Sad Songs, the world's first major documentary on AIDS.

Sheehan has worked as a journalist and literary critic.