Paul Welsh
Production
Biography
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

After being abandoned by their Nazi parents at the end of World War II, five German siblings embark on a harrowing journey across their war-torn country. Led by the eldest, 14 year-old Lore, the children are forced to confront their parents’ actions and the reality of a new world.
Lore

A superstitious widow looks at the stars every night in the hope of understanding her late husband's last words to her. Meanwhile a homeless man discovers some interesting items discarded in a bin.
Look Up

In writer-director Nick Whitfield's black indie comedy, a pair of "exorcists" (Ed Gaughan and Andrew Buckley) with the power to rid people of their secrets agree to help a woman (Paprika Steen) whose daughter (Tuppence Middleton) is mute -- and whose husband is missing. Jason Isaacs co-stars as the mysterious Colonel, who seems to be calling the shots from the sidelines of the duo's shadowy enterprise.
Skeletons
Seven year old Amy whose recently separated parents hold differing views on her social development is enthralled in her world of make believe. One afternoon when her father comes to visit this situation comes to a head, with disturbing consequences for Amy.
The Imaginary Girl

Jonah is proud to be the loner at the teenage mental health clinic, taking pleasure in making the other patients uncomfortable. But when he is forced to share a room with the newly admitted Richard, the boys become locked in a battle of wills.
The Last Time I Saw Richard

After years of estrangement, two brothers encounter their father living in a mysterious Scottish community.
UFO
When a Palestinian woman claims asylum in the UK, she faces the indifference of British bureaucracy and the disillusionment of an asylum officer on the verge of leaving the country for good.
Go Home

Mike picks up his teenage son on his birthday so they can spend a rare day together, but soon realizes that there is a lot they don't know about each other anymore.
Rite

Jack is utterly fed up with living at home. He longs for love, freedom and the music by KISS.
Snowblind
A son is caring for his dying mother, when a mysterious figure arrives one day calling out her name.
Death in a Nut

In a small provincial Iranian town, the children work hard to support their families. One day nine-year-old Yahya and his friend Leyla find a precious statue. Sharing a passion for cinema, Yahya's boss Naser Khan decides to help them find the owner.
Winners

An emotionally repressed and traumatised young man is challenged by disruptive outsiders to face up to his delusion, and risks losing the final bond to his dead mother.
Bunny
An anxious mother-to-be must confront a sinister presence in her new home and the growing cracks in her marriage.
The Rat King

Tolu has a choice: save herself or save her friend. As a nightclub toilet attendant, she is both overlooked by and integral for a group of depraved men set on a hideous act.
Expensive Shit
A young mother accidentally opens a window on her past self, at a time when she was struggling with a series of miscarriages. How can she now help her past self through this distressing time and see hope in the future?
A Glimpse
A shop worker discovers how far she will go for love when the Taxidermist next door is threatened with eviction.
The Taxidermist
A desperate woman with an optical tumor seeks out a faith healer as a last resort solution, but it works a little too well.
Deliver Me

Ryan moves from one village to the next with a merry-go-round. It isn't easy to keep finding new friends.
Seagulls
A motorway, a woman, a telephone, a man, a car, another man. A short film about love in the city.
The Lovers
Maia Thomas stars as Crystal: a mother, a lover, a stripper and a cancer patient. Confronting death, she grasps at life and faces herself and the ones she loves without deception.