Paul Holbrook

Born in Bristol, Paul Holbrook is a working-class writer-director and award-winning filmmaker who grew up on a rough, poverty-stricken council estate. Despite a lack of formal education, Paul started out as a screenwriter, writing feature-length scripts for the spec market and made encouraging progress, advancing in various industry-backed screenwriting competitions including Page, Shore, Screencraft and in 2018 made the final 1% of The Academy Nicholl Fellowship. He has also made the final stages of the BBC Writersroom, the later stages of iShorts and has been selected for industry-backed mentoring and career development through Creative England and the BFI NETWORK. After years of honing his writing craft, Paul eventually moved into film-making, driven by a passion to develop and direct his own work he has worked on a plethora of successful short films across varying genres including comedy, drama, sci-fi and horror. His work has screened at festivals around the world including many Bafta and Oscar qualifiers. Paul is developing an exciting slate of scripts and ideas with the aim of directing his first feature.