Paul is an award-winning filmmaker and educator from Massachusetts. He earned his BFA in Filmmaking from the SUNY Purchase Film Conservatory in New York and his Master's in Film and Television from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is the resident Acting for Film Instructor at the International Theatre and Dance Project in Greece.

Paul's films have screened and won awards at festivals nationwide and abroad. His latest project which he produced and co-conceived, Read Em' and Weep, took home the Best New England Film Award at the 2023 Provincetown Film Festival. Recently his short, Stay for Tea, was awarded Best Fiction Film Award at the 2021 Vermont International Film Festival (Made Here Festival). Stay for Tea also won the Audience Favorite Award at the Austin Arthouse Film Festival (2020). In 2019 Paul's film, Skye, won Best Direction and Best Actress at the Symi International Film Festival in Greece.

In 2013 and 2014 Paul was awarded The Joan Potter and Miriam Arsham Award for Directing Actors from SUNY Purchase College and is a two-time recipient of the Harriet Irsay Scholarship from the American Institute of Polish Culture.

Paul's work explores family dynamics, mental illness, identity, and the importance of place.

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