Paul Swadel

Paul Swadel was a New Zealand film director and producer.

He directed and produced many successful short films which screened in competition at Cannes, Venice, New York City 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 produced award-winning work for Sony, Nike and had his PlayStation work picked up globally.

Swadel nurtured a filmmaking partnership with James Cunningham (Director) that spanned 15 years and four 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 developed 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.Poppy was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles 2010, and Best in Show at SIGGRAPH Asia in Seoul 2010.

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