Beverly Sebastian

{{short description|American film director}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2013}}

{{Infobox person

|name=Beverly Sebastian

|birth_date=

|birth_place=United States

|death_date=

|death_place=

|occupation=Film director

}}

{{Infobox person

|name=Ferd Sebastian

|birth_date=25 July 1933

|birth_place=Travis County, Texas, United States

|death_date=27 March 2022

|death_place=

|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.

The Sebastians were a working couple who collaborated on most aspects of filmmaking together. {{cite news|title=The good the bad the redneck|newspaper=Tampa Bay Times|date=16 April 1993|page=3|first=Victoria|last=White}}{{cite magazine|magazine=Filmink|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/unsung-auteurs-beverly-ferd-sebastian/|title=Unsung Auteurs: Beverly & Ferd Sebastian|first= Erin|last= Free|date=6 July 2023}} During an interview with JA Kerswell of the UK publication, Hysteria Lives!, Ferd Sebastian recalled, with his son Tracy's encouragement, he imported the French-made rock documentary about the Australian band AC/DC, AC/DC: Let There Be Rock, which played as a "midnight movie" in theaters across the United States.{{cite web |last1=Francis |first1=R.D (28 October 2022) |title=Ferd Sebastian: A Life in Film The '70s exploitation filmmaker behind the drive-in hits 'Rocktober Blood' and ''Gator Bait," passes |url=https://rdfranciswriter.medium.com/ferd-sebastian-a-life-in-film-7b5eff56b9e2 |website=Medium|date=February 21, 2025 }}

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.{{cite news|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxRbPFtNKQk |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211217/gxRbPFtNKQk |archive-date=2021-12-17 |url-status=live|title=Interview with Beverly Sebastian about her life and career from 2012.|access-date=June 9, 2016}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web|url=https://www.hysteria-lives.co.uk/hysterialives/Hysteria/loose_talk_loses_lives_40.htm|website=Hysteria Lives|title=Loose talk loses lives - interview with Ferd Sebastian}}