Paul Swadel

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Still from Venice Film Festival Official Selection Accidents, Starring Marton Csokas, Rawiri Paratene, Frank Whitten and Marek Sumich .

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Production Still from the Award Winning Documentary Colin McCahon: I Am Paul Swadel and Director of Photography Leon Narbey do some old-school shooting with a Bolex

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Image from CGI performance capture film set in WWI * Poppy

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Still from Infection – made with Animator James Cunningham (Director). In Competition Cannes Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival.

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Still from Blinder made with Animator James Cunningham (Director)

Paul Swadel is a New Zealand film director and producer.

He has directed and produced many successful short films which have screened in competition at Cannes, Venice, New York and Sundance film festivals to name but a few. Saatchi & Saatchi spotted his talent early in the commercials world for their New Directors Showcase at Cannes in 2000. As a TV Commercial director he has done award-winning work for Sony, Nike and had his Playstation work picked up globally.

He has nurtured a filmmaking partnership with James Cunningham (Director) that spans 14 years and three globally successful short films . Their Film Infection competed at Cannes International Film Festival 2000, Sundance Film Festival 2001 and 20 other international Film Festivals. Paul and James have been developing an indie performance capture driven CGI film Marshal with Mark Ordesky, Executive Producer of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, and are currently completing a proof of concept short film Poppy, that was shot on the Weta Digital motion capture soundstage. Poppy features Matthew Sunderland Winner of Best Actor Award at the 2008 NZ Screen Awards .

Swadel has also developed and co-directed projects with his brother Marc Swadel who has recently returned from Europe to New Zealand as Creative Manager of MTV. Currently also working as an Online Content Director for Wallpaper* Magazine, Marc's reel includes work with The Strokes, Sonic Youth and Iggy Pop, and his TVC work was featured in the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors Showcase at Cannes in 2003.

Swadel was a Co-Executive Producer of Headstrong with Ant Timpson and Leanne Saunders. Their feature film The Devil Dared Me To had its world premiere at SXSW and screened at over 20 International Film Festivals. It has sold to Wild Bunch for the United Kingdom, Vivendi for the United States and Boll AG for rest of world. Their second feature film A Song Of Good began it’s festival run with a World Premiere at Rotterdam Film Festival where it sold out all of it’s screenings. It garnered 5 nominations at the 2008 New Zealand Screen Awards, and won a Best Picture Award .

Swadel has also directed a significant number of award-winning art documentaries around the world. These range in subject from Placido Domingo at the NY Metropolitan Opera – The Understudy, to an award winning six-hour series on the history of New Zealand Art – The Big Picture presented by Hamish Keith, which garnered 3 nominations at the 2008 New Zealand Screen Awards, and won Best Series and Best Music Awards . Paul Swadel has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film from the University of Canterbury and a Master of Fine Arts with First Class Honours in Intermedia, from the University of Auckland.

Swadel is currently filling the role of Development Executive with the New Zealand Film Commission in Wellington, New Zealand.

Filmography

PRODUCER

• Poppy (2009): Producer
• A Song Of Good (2008): Executive producer
• The Devil Dared Me To (2007): Executive producer
• No Ordinary Sun (2004): Executive producer
• Water (2004): Executive producer
• Ride (2004): Executive producer
• The French Doors (2002): Executive producer
• Beautiful (2002): Executive producer
• Junk (2001): Executive producer
• Infection (2000): Producer
• Like An Angel (1999): Producer
• Blinder (1998): Producer
• Delf (1997): Producer
• Supercollider (1996): Producer
• Zerographic (1992): Producer

DIRECTOR

• The Big Picture (2007): Director
• The Understudy (2005): Director
• Colin McCahon: I Am (2004): Director
• Accidents (2000): Director
• Like An Angel (1999): Director
• Supercollider (1996): Director
• A Little Death (1994): Co-Director

External links

• Paul Swadel: Internet Movie Database
• Poppy: Short film official website

References

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