Paul is a Co-Executive Producer of Headstrong with Ant Timpson and Leanne Saunders. Their feature film The Devil Dared Me To has it's world premiere at SXSW and screened at over 20 International Film Festivals. Their second feature film A Song Of Good began it's festival run with a World Premiere at Rotterdam Film Festival. It garnered 5 nominations at the 2008 New Zealand Screen Awards, and won a Best Picture Award.
Paul has also directed a significant number of award-winning art documentaries around the world. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film from the University of Canterbury and a Master of Fine Arts in Intermedia, from Elam School of Fine Arts (Auckland, NZ).
Production CompanySupercollider Ltd is a filmmaking partnership between James Cunningham and Paul Swadel that spans 16 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 are developing several feature film projects in which they intend to utilise and extend the performance capture process used in Poppy.
Projects include an indie CGI film titled Marshal with Executive Producer Mark Ordesky, (also Newline Executive Producer of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy).
More Information at
www.poppyfilm.com. Image and Video Courtesy of James Cunningham