Hi, I’m paul
A visual storyteller making films and building the content systems that send them into the world — for global tech consultancies, cultural institutions, and the human imagination. Twenty years of craft. AI in the workshop.
FILMS THAT TRAVEL
Short films, documentaries, brand work, AI-augmented content. Award-winning craft, quality output. Made for the moment, built to last.
SYSTEMS THAT SCALE
Content infrastructure for ambitious brands. Motion toolkits, narrative frameworks, production systems. Built so your team can publish at volume — without sacrificing quality.
My Approach
Story first. Always. Then craft. Then infrastructure. AI accelerates execution where speed matters — it never replaces the directorial decision, the editorial cut, or the strategic frame. The brief is never the brief. The brief is the symptom. My job is to find the real story underneath, give it form, and build the machinery so it can keep being told.
THE LONG VIEW
Trained and worked as an actor. Worked as a director / producer for twenty years. Built creative systems for global brands. Walked the South Downs for thinking. Read more than I should. Studied mythology. Art lover.
The conviction underneath all of it: visual storytelling is how humans make sense of the world. The best stories work on multiple registers at once — literal and symbolic, strategic and soulful, made for now and built to last.
THE evidence
Channel 4. BBC. ITV. National Geographic. British Airways. UN summits. Parliament screenings in Westminster and Brussels. A short film, The Energy Within, that won at London International Short Film Festival and screened at fourteen festivals internationally. Fourteen years with one client. A 1m-view social campaign.
AI in the workshop.
AI is a remarkable tool — for ideation, visual development, and accelerating work that used to take weeks. But the directorial decision, the editorial cut, the strategic frame? Those remain human — informed by experience and intuition, and they always will be.
The result: faster than traditional production. More scalable than craft alone. More considered.
