Paul Kowalski

Paul Kowalski is an awardwinning writerdirector whose films center around identity exile and obsession often featuring dark psychologies and the supernatural His film SARDINIA won Best Director Grand Prize at the 2024 Flickers Rhode Island film festival and is longlisted for the 2025 Academy Awards Executive producer Patton Oswalt called it an effortlessly original piece of workbeyond timely the film stars FIRST REFORMEDs Philip Ettinger and Emmywinner Martha Plimpton Pauls 2021 debut feature PAPER TIGER won the Audience Award and a Jury Prize at the Austin Film Festival and was subsequently sold by Gersh and distributed onto Amazon Born in the UK to Polish immigrants Paul grew up in England the Middle East Poland Africa Southeast Asia and across America sparking a natural impulse to reconcile contrasting views of the world Studying literature and writing at Brown University he published a collection of short stories and made his earliest films then later received his MFA from the AFI Conservatory Kowalskis films have won international recognition from the ASC Beijing Film Academy and CINE as well as the Canadian Cinematheque Aesthetica Raindance deadCENTER Cinequest and Indy Shorts film festivals among others Paul is also a twotime BAFTA Newcomer frequent lecturer at USCs School of Cinematic Arts and in 2021 was selected by Austin Film Festival and Writers Conference to their 25 Screenwriters To Watch list He is a Polish British and US citizen and lives in LA with his wife actress Sorel Carradine