SELECTED EXPERIENCE / FILMOGRAPHY:
WRITER / DIRECTOR
The Art Inside - HD Documentary Feature
WRITER / DIRECTOR
The Dead of Winter - 35mm Feature
PRODUCER / DIRECTOR / CAMERA OPERATOR
Shave and a Haircut - 22 minute Documentary
DIRECTOR / FIELD PRODUCER / CAMERA OPERATOR
Webdreams - Season II, Gemini Award Nominated TV Series
Reality-based "Docu-Soap" 12-episodes (shot & broadcast in HD)
Galafilm Inc. / Alliance-Atlantis
Airing Worldwide: Showcase (Canada) & USA (TBA)
Premieres April 6/2007 on Showcase
WRITER / DIRECTOR / PRODUCER
Verizon Wireless "On the Corner" - 30 second Commercial Spec
Format: 1080p uncompressed HD
DIRECTOR / PRODUCER / EDITOR / CAMERA OPERATOR
5 Sides of a Coin, Feature-length documentary
Distributed Worldwide by 7 th Art Releasing
DVD distribution by Lakeshore Entertainment
Airing on Starz! (USA) & Documentary Channel (Canada)
For purchase, license or booking info: http://www.7thart.com
persons, places, things, mid-length Fictional-Narrative
16mm B&W
Screened in Tokyo, Berlin, London, Montreal & Vancouver
Do Not Ruin Your Credit, Short Experimental
Official Selection: New York, Chicago & San Francisco Underground Film Festivals
Room 102, Short Fictional-Narrative
Winner: Jury Prize - 23 rd Annual Festival of Student Films
Honorable Mention: Best Cinematography -10 th Annual National Student Film Festival
Clipped, Short Documentary
Winner: Best Videography - SMPIA Awards
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Paul Watson - Eco Pirate, Feature-length documentary
Screen Siren Pictures http://www.screensiren.ca/full/watson.shtml
Currently in Production
Segment of Production: Galapagos Islands
FREELANCE CAMERA OPERATOR
CTV, CBC, BCTV, Global, Much Music, SVT (Swedish National TV), Cossette Advertising
(Client: Molson), Pinpoint Productions (Clients: Nike Canada, Federal Government, etc.)
EDUCATION / TRAINING:
BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS (With Distinction)
Major in Film Production
Concordia University, Montreal
Video & Television Production
University of Regina
Kodak Visiting Artists Program
Cinematographer Andrew Laszlo ASC (Streets of Fire, First Blood, Inner Space)
Advanced Editing
Editor & Academy Award Winner Jean Oser (Pandora's Box, Kameradschaft)
References, expanded experience, expanded filmography & expanded press clippings are
available upon request.
SELECTED PRESS:
" Paul Kell cuts this interview footage images flow as smooth as the beats they're cut to,
making for something like a live action magazine, or a with classic and recent performance
footage and archival photos taken throughout the evolution of hip-hop. The hip as fuck video
textbook on hip-hop if you will, written by the masters themselves.
5 Sides of the Coin contains absolutely no artificial sweeteners or preservatives - no
commercial hogwash. This is the real shit." - FILM THREAT
"A flashy, earnest tribute to the spirit of hip-hop directed by Paul Kell. Mr. Kell interviews
a smattering of hip-hop artists, most from New York and most allied, by history or affinity,
with a pre-gangsta, pre-P. Diddy street-level aesthetic that values craft over flash and honesty
over provocation.
If you like the music, you will appreciate Mr. Kell's attention to it, and relish the on-camera
presence of legends like Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaataa. ''5 Sides of a Coin'' will make your
head nod...A fascinating story." - A.O. SCOTT, NEW YORK TIMES
"Helmer and chief lenser Paul Kell spent years researching turntable based movement's West
Bronx block party roots and traveled Europe, Asia and the States to capture its fallout.
Great looking. Well executed. Thorough overview of hip-hop's origins and influences."
- VARIETY
"Paul Kell's 5 Sides of a Coin announces in its title that defining something as fluid as hip-hop
isn't going to happen. But damn if the Saskatoon-raised, Concordia U-schooled wily whiz kid
hasn't gone out and nailed as solid a history of the expanding culture as any old-schooler could ever
want.
Meticulously shot in the layered vernacular of the art form, but faithful to the tenets of the genre.
The kind of conviction that makes you want to remember his name so you can say you knew him when."
- JOHN GRIFFIN, MONTREAL GAZETTE
"5 SIDES OF A COIN, directed by Paul Kell, packs in a ton of information plus some social commentary
concerning the influence of hip hop culture on today's youth by the artists themselves. I hope you get a
chance to check it out." - AIN'T IT COOL NEWS
Paul Kell was selected by ANTHEM magazine as one of twelve young directors whose
"place in the film world will never be fleeting."