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

Directing
2004 Total Rubbish Directing Director N/A
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2002 Mountain People Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2014 Snowblind Writing Story N/A
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2013 Perception Writing Story Editor 59
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2013 The Last Time I Saw Richard Writing Script Editor 59
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2013 Perception Writing Script Editor 59
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2009 The Taxidermist Writing Story N/A
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Production
2025 As You Leave Production Executive Producer 58
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2025 I Called Her Lexi Production Executive Producer N/A
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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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2021 Go Home Production 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 Boys Night Production Executive Producer 58
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2019 Look Up Production Executive Producer N/A
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2018 Tomorrow Might Be The Day Production Executive Producer N/A
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2018 I Was Here 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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2018 Slingshot Production Executive Producer N/A
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2017 The Inescapable Arrival of Lazlo Petushki Production Executive Producer N/A
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2017 Howls Production Executive Producer N/A
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2017 Lost in France Production Producer 58
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2016 Spores Production Executive Producer N/A
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2016 Crowman Production Executive Producer N/A
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2015 No Place Like Home Production Executive Producer N/A
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2015 The Rat King Production Executive Producer N/A
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2015 Dave Production Executive Producer N/A
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2014 Seagulls Production Executive Producer 58
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2012 Lore Production Producer 62
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2012 Death in a Nut Production Producer N/A
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2011 Sweetheart Production Producer N/A
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2010 Rite Production Producer 58
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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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2004 Total Rubbish Production Producer N/A
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2002 Swansong Production Producer N/A
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2002 Mountain People Production Producer N/A
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1998 The Night Sweeper Production Producer N/A
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No A Basher Production Executive Producer N/A
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Behold, This Dreamer Cometh Production Executive Producer N/A
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Editing
2004 Total Rubbish Editing Editor N/A
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2004 Lament Editing Editor N/A
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2002 Mountain People Editing Editor N/A
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