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Paul Boyington won an Primetime Emmy Award winner for the Primetime CBS show “The Last Halloween” Boyington is a Hollywood Producer, Director, Screenwriter and Visual Effects Supervisor. He won a Prime Time Emmy Award for his visual effects work on the Primetime CBS show “The Last Halloween”. He was also nominated for a Prime Time Emmy for title design for "Friday the 13th - The Series,” as well as a nomination for the Canadian Television Gemini Award, (Canadian Emmy), for his visual effects work on the “The Outer Limits” television series, for which he was the visual effects supervisor. His TV credits include the “The Steve Harvey Show," "War of the Worlds," "Key West," “The Outer Limits,” and "Friday the 13th - The Series”. Paul directed the episode “Perchance to Dream," for the dramatic television series, “Monsters“. On the feature side, his visual effects supervision and title design credits include “Nightmare on Elm Street 2 Freddy’s Revenge," "Surviving the Game," “Bulletproof," “Ironweed," “Iron Eagle III” “Invaders from Mars” and the iconic Tom Hanks’ comedy "Dragnet". He was the 2nd Unit Director on the films, “NYC: Tornado Terror“ and “Nature Unleashed:Earthquake”. One of the highlights of Paul Boyington’s career was to direct and design the visual effects production for the opening title sequence, as well as supervise all other visual effects for Tim Burton’s feature film, “Ed Wood”. Another highlight was to supervise and produce the visual effects for the “dream sequences” for the acclaimed film “Eve’s Bayou," starring Samuel L. Jackson. For over twenty years Paul ran his own visual effects studio and commercial production company, where he directed and produced commercials, music videos and supervised visual effects projects, for the film, television, music and advertising industry, (see attached credits). Currently he is writing screenplays and producing and directing content for film and television.

Early Life: Paul Stephen Boyington, (July 6, 1953,) Paul is a working film director, screenwriter, visual effects supervisor and Film and Television Producer. He was born in Boise Idaho, his mother’s Elizabeth E. Boyington’s childhood home on July 6, 1953.

Six weeks later he moved to Pullman Washington where his mother and father lived. His father Alfred Merrill Boyington, was a professor of music and headed the string department and conducted Washington State College orchestra from the 1930s to the 1960s. Alfred was head of the string department which included teaching the areas of violin viola cello and string bass he was active in the north west recruiting students from the best high schools to attend Washington State University in the orchestra department Paul’s mother Elizabeth Burns Boyington who is the daughter of Paul be Earle and Elizabeth Earl of Boise Idaho was also an educator and earned two masters degrees in her lifetime she also help start a fund through the nonprofit PEO a women’s philanthropic educational organization a scholarship fun titled PCE, (The Program for Continuing Education,) which to date has raised over $50 million to give out as scholarships to women worldwide.

Paul growing up in Pullman, was active in sports including playing high school football, baseball and also baseball and track in junior high. He was also an avid outdoorsman and utilized the Palouse and the great wildlife of the northwest as a habitat that he embraced. He was influenced by his father‘s artistic ability and creative mind who as a Juilliard trained violinist and orchestra conductor was a major influence in Paul’s decision to have a career in entertainment and the arts. Paul was influenced at an early age by being given the opportunity to attend open houses at Washington state University in both in the areas of science, engineering, veterinary medicine as well as the arts. At Washington state university Paul attended The university’s summer high school music, art and theater camp, where he was able to study with working professors in the areas of fine arts, music, theater and broadcast.  Paul was taught at an early age by Victor Moore, his high school art teacher who was a working artist and assemblage sculptor. Paul was also influenced by Pullmans own internationally known fine art jeweler and CWSU proffessor, Ken Cory who is an early mentor. Paul also was influenced and mentored by electronic sculptor and WSU fine art professor Jack Dollhausen, WSU professor of ceramics Don Anawalt, WSU professor of sculptor Robert Helm, WSU professor of graphics Richard Thornton and WSU professor of sculpture and glassblowing, George Laznier. He was also influenced an early age by fine arts student Sue Burkland Erlanger and Linda Gerritsen who mentored Paul both in print making , drawing, etching and jewelry design. In the summers of the late 1960s Paul had had wanderlust and interest in what was going on in Seattle Washington, with the counterculture and so he hitchhiked the 300 miles to Seattle multiple times to be in the world of the changing an underground counter culture of the late 1960s. While on one of those visits he found out that his friend and fine art mentors, Linda Garrettson was living in a house with Sue Burkland and also aspiring blues artist and former Washington state university students Gary Cerutti and Don Mcneff Oldenstat.

After living in the same house with the older Washington state university former students Paul was mentored on the blues harmonica by both Gary and Don their mentorship help Paul form a band back in Pullman that played contemporary blues and rock ‘n’ roll and was entitled, “T. LaRue and the Cadillac”

Which was is road managed by Richard Johnson. Paul played electric harmonica and some of the band members included guitarist, Paul Arntson, keyboardist, Bryan Bishop, bassist, Stu Auller, drummer, Jim Bush and Highway men, Motorcycle gang member and musician, Nick Johnson, who played both lead flute and sax and went on to be a professor music at the University of Idaho and the lead singer was Marie Dee. T La Roux in the Cadillac played for Fraternity and sororities dances as well playing in local bars but they highly light of their tenure was playing the Universal Life Church picnic which was rock festival attended by many thousands of youth at Pend Oreille lake in northern Idaho in the summer of 1971.

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