About

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Place of birth:
Scotland, UK
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Paul Welsh

Overview

Paul Welsh is a producer, developer and commissioner based in Glasgow. He founded DigiCult in 2001 and continues to lead on development and production for the company. Over the last twenty years, Paul has built a strong reputation for developing new and emerging film talent, distilling his approach into a process-based workshop THE STORY ROOM.

As producer, Paul’s debut feature SKELETONS (Nick Whitfield, 2010) won the Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature, EIFF 2010, and was BAFTA and BIFA nominated the following year.

His second feature LORE (Cate Shortland, 2012) premiered at Locarno and TIFF, winning numerous awards including Australian and German Academy Awards. Lore was Australia’s nominee for Foreign Language Oscar in 2013 and co-produced by Porchlight Films (Sydney) and Rohfilm (Berlin).

In documentary, Irish-Scottish co-production LOST IN FRANCE (Niall McCann, 2016) premiered at CPH-Dox, EIFF and GFF, and is distributed by Curzon Artificial Eye in the UK.

Over the last decade Paul’s live action shorts and animations include BAFTA in Scotland winners Battenberg (Stewart Comrie, 2010), Fixing Luka (Jessica Ashman, 2012), Monkey Love Experiments (Ainsley Henderson, Will Anderson, 2014), No Place Like Home (Cat Bruce, 2016), The Inescapable Arrival of Lazlo Petushki (Sven Werner, 2017), My Loneliness Is Killing Me (Tim Courtney, 2018) and Widdershins (Simon Biggs, 2018). Most recently, Paul developed and exec produced The Fabric of You (Josephine Lohoar Self, 2019) which is currently long-listed for the 2021 Oscars for Best Short Animation.

Known for

Writing
2014 Snowblind Writing Story N/A
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2013 Perception Writing Story Editor 59
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2013 Perception Writing Script Editor 59
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2013 The Last Time I Saw Richard Writing Script Editor 59
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2009 The Taxidermist Writing Story N/A
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Production
2023 Winners Production Producer N/A
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2022 A Glimpse Production Executive Producer N/A
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2022 You Were There Production Executive Producer N/A
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2020 Expensive Shit Production Executive Producer 58
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2020 UFO Production Executive Producer N/A
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2019 Look Up Production Executive Producer N/A
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2018 My Loneliness Is Killing Me Production Executive Producer 58
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2018 Bunny Production Executive Producer 59
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2017 Lost in France Production Producer 58
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2014 Seagulls Production Executive Producer 59
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2012 Lore Production Producer 62
Fair
2010 Rite Production Producer 59
Average
2010 Skeletons Production Producer 58
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2010 Deliver Me Production Executive Producer N/A
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2007 The Imaginary Girl Production Executive Producer N/A
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2006 Tracks Production Executive Producer N/A
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