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Paul Welsh

Nacimiento : , Scotland, UK

Historia

Paul Welsh is a producer, developer and commissioner based in Glasgow. He founded DigiCult in 2001 and continues to lead on development and production for the company. Over the last twenty years, Paul has built a strong reputation for developing new and emerging film talent, distilling his approach into a process-based workshop THE STORY ROOM. As producer, Paul’s debut feature SKELETONS (Nick Whitfield, 2010) won the Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature, EIFF 2010, and was BAFTA and BIFA nominated the following year. His second feature LORE (Cate Shortland, 2012) premiered at Locarno and TIFF, winning numerous awards including Australian and German Academy Awards. Lore was Australia’s nominee for Foreign Language Oscar in 2013 and co-produced by Porchlight Films (Sydney) and Rohfilm (Berlin). In documentary, Irish-Scottish co-production LOST IN FRANCE (Niall McCann, 2016) premiered at CPH-Dox, EIFF and GFF, and is distributed by Curzon Artificial Eye in the UK. Over the last decade Paul’s live action shorts and animations include BAFTA in Scotland winners Battenberg (Stewart Comrie, 2010), Fixing Luka (Jessica Ashman, 2012), Monkey Love Experiments (Ainsley Henderson, Will Anderson, 2014), No Place Like Home (Cat Bruce, 2016), The Inescapable Arrival of Lazlo Petushki (Sven Werner, 2017), My Loneliness Is Killing Me (Tim Courtney, 2018) and Widdershins (Simon Biggs, 2018). Most recently, Paul developed and exec produced The Fabric of You (Josephine Lohoar Self, 2019) which is currently long-listed for the 2021 Oscars for Best Short Animation.

Películas

Producer

In a small provincial Iranian town, the children work hard to support their families. One day nine-year-old Yahya and his friend Leyla find a precious statue. Sharing a passion for cinema, Yahya's boss Naser Khan decides to help them find the owner.

Executive Producer

A young mother accidentally opens a window on her past self, at a time when she was struggling with a series of miscarriages. How can she now help her past self through this distressing time and see hope in the future?

Executive Producer

A father grieves for his deceased daughter and meets an old friend of hers.

Executive Producer

Tolu has a choice: save herself or save her friend. As a nightclub toilet attendant, she is both overlooked by and integral for a group of depraved men set on a hideous act.

Executive Producer

After years of estrangement, two brothers encounter their father living in a mysterious Scottish community.

Executive Producer

A superstitious widow looks at the stars every night in the hope of understanding her late husband's last words to her. Meanwhile a homeless man discovers some interesting items discarded in a bin.

My Loneliness Is Killing Me

My Loneliness Is Killing Me

Executive Producer

When Elliott lures the animalistic Jack to his apartment for a late night hook up, he unexpectedly unearths a dark emotional connection.

Executive Producer

An emotionally repressed and traumatised young man is challenged by disruptive outsiders to face up to his delusion, and risks losing the final bond to his dead mother.

Producer

A new documentary explores the rise of Scotland's independent music scene in the '90s, led by cult label Chemikal Underground. On the journey, we revisit a defining, chaotic trip early in the musicians' careers, re-staging a concert in Brittany that connects the characters in life (and on stage) for the first time in many years.

Story

Jack is utterly fed up with living at home. He longs for love, freedom and the music by KISS.

Executive Producer

Ryan moves from one village to the next with a merry-go-round. It isn't easy to keep finding new friends.

The Last Time I Saw Richard

The Last Time I Saw Richard

Script Editor

Jonah is proud to be the loner at the teenage mental health clinic, taking pleasure in making the other patients uncomfortable. But when he is forced to share a room with the newly admitted Richard, the boys become locked in a battle of wills.

Producer

Corre la primavera de 1945, y el ejército alemán se derrumba por momentos. Las fuerzas aliadas están entrando por todo el país, y así, con sus padres ausentes y el Tercer Reich desmoronándose, la joven Lore decide llevar a sus cuatro hermanos 500 kilometros a través de Alemania hasta un lugar seguro en casa de su abuela, en el Mar del Norte... Adaptación de la novela 'El cuarto oscuro', de Rachel Seiffert.

Producer

Mike picks up his teenage son on his birthday so they can spend a rare day together, but soon realizes that there is a lot they don't know about each other anymore.

Producer

Dos exorcistas, literalmente, eliminan los esqueletos de los armarios de los hogares de la gente. Algunos secretos bastante embarazosos, se revelan en el transcurso. Un caso en que los esqueletos se han escondido cambian la vida de todos los involucrados.

Executive Producer

A desperate woman with an optical tumor seeks out a faith healer as a last resort solution, but it works a little too well.

The Taxidermist

The Taxidermist

Story

A shop worker discovers how far she will go for love when the Taxidermist next door is threatened with eviction.

Executive Producer

13-year-old Nico is badly beaten by his brother while playing with fireworks. To gain revenge, he steals his brother's cat. Unable to return home, he meets up with some other kids, and they head to the railway track where two of the boys commit an act of mindless brutality. Nico is compelled by the frenzied horror of earlier events to join in. As the day draws to a close, the boys break up and head home and Nico is left to contemplate his actions.