Paul Mayora

Paul Mayora Producer/Director/DOP/Writer and Editor BIO: Paul Daniel Mayora was born and raised in Cabramatta West, one of multiculturalism's most prominent melting pots in the southwest of Sydney, Australia. Both Paul's parents are Uruguayan. They constantly exposed Paul to Uruguay's rich cultural arts, music, and films. This cultural influence led Paul, at 14, to start doing audio for his sister's Latin band. In 2000, Paul was encouraged to study audio production, then film and television production in 2006. From 2006 Paul began pursuing a career in film and television, spanned over 15 years. In 2018, Paul received his diploma in Camera at the Australian Film Television and Radio School. He went on to film his first short film as DOP and editor for the experimental film "A Family Reunion". Within months from completing that film, he made his debut as a director for his 2nd short film ", Devil's Whisper," where he was DOP and Editor on the film. Paul won the Best Director award for Devil's Whisper at the Dream Machine Festival in Los Angeles in 2020. at various film festivals, The film won 2 Best short Film awards, five best lead actor awards and two semi-finalist awards in Cinematography. In 2021 Paul recently wrote the screenplay "No Country without Horses", a commercial thriller film in pre-production. As of 2022, Paul is working on; "La Maquina", a paranormal web-based series in production. "The case of Pasquale", a psychological thriller in development. "On the ropes" is a drama in development. Paul lives in Sydney, Australia and has a film production company; he works on exciting projects that immerse the audience emotionally through intense visual and storytelling methodologies. "Film making is an art form of visually telling stories, a modern extension of the painter, thy camera is my paintbrush and the scene is thy canvas" Paul Mayora. 2020 WORK: FILM; Feature Film"The case of Pasquale", a psychological thriller in development. Feature Film "On the ropes" is a drama in development. Feature Film - No Country Without Horses - Writer/Screenplay Feature Film (Web)- La Maquina -Executive Producer, Producer, Director, DOP, Editor and Sound designer - 2020 Short Film - Devil's Whisper - Executive Producer, Producer, Director, Cinematographer, Editor and Sound designer - 2020 (Won Best director, 2 Best short films and 5 best lead Actor awards) Short Film - A Family Reunion - Executive Producer, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor and Sound mixer - 2019 Short Film - Tip of my Tongue - Camera Dept, 2018 Feature Film - Love Socks - Sound Dept, 2013 TV; 2014 - 2022 - Broadcast Technician/Camera operator 2018 - 2019: Editor and DOP/Camera Operator @ (Oxygen 360) 2017 - 2018: Project Manager @ (Broadcast Virtual) 2017 - started my own production business - Mayora Productions 2014-2017: Virtual and Broadcast graphics operator @ (Namadgi Systems -Sydney, Australia) 2008-2013: On-air and presentation Operations Dept @ (Channel 9 TCN - Sydney, Australia) 2006-2008: Editor/Camera operator @ (Filmotion Production) 2002-2006: Live Sound operator/engineer @ (Realatino Entertainment)