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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. Swadel has nurtured a filmmaking partnership with James Cunningham (Director) that spans 15 years and four globally successful short films〔(''James Cunningham: Director, IMDB'' )〕 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 series). Their proof of concept short film Poppy, was shot on the Weta Digital motion capture soundstage. ''Poppy'' features Matthew Sunderland Winner of Best Actor Award at the 2008 NZ Screen Awards.〔(''Matthew Sunderland – 2008 Awards'' )〕 Poppy was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles 2010, and Best in Show at SIGGRAPH Asia in Seoul 2010. He has also developed and co-directed projects with his brother Marc Swadel, whose 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. Swadel was a Co-Executive Producer of Headstrong with Ant Timpson and Leanne Saunders.〔(''Headstrong Ltd.'' )〕 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 its festival run with a World Premiere at Rotterdam Film Festival where it sold out all of its screenings.〔(''A SONG OF GOOD – Feature Film'' )〕 It garnered 5 nominations at the 2008 New Zealand Screen Awards, and won a ''Best Picture'' Award.〔(''A SONG OF GOOD – 2008 Awards'' )〕 He has also directed a significant number of award-winning art documentaries around the world. These range in subject from Plácido 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.〔(''THE BIG PICTURE – 2008 Awards'' )〕 Swadel recently filled the role of Development Executive at the New Zealand Film Commission in Wellington, New Zealand. He has recently Executive Produced a cinema documentary on the 2010 /11 Christchurch Earthquakes When A City Falls 〔(''2010 Canterbury Earthquakes'' )〕〔(''2011 Christchurch Earthquake'' )〕 (in release) which had its International Premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival, 2012. Swadel is currently developing 6 Feature Films and Exec-Producing $90k shorts as Blue Harvest with the NZ Film Commission. He is currently working on a McCahon book with Craig Potton Publishers. He also works at Media Design School as a Senior Lecturer for the Bachelor of Arts and Design where he teaches filmmaking process.〔http://www.mediadesignschool.com/courses/3d-vfx/tutors/〕 ==Education== 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 Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Swadel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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