Paul Pauwels
Production
Biography
Paul Pauwels is a Belgian film producer, unit manager and production manager. In 1987, he founded the commercials, short films, and documentaries production company Periscope Productions. In 2005, Pauwels left Periscope to become programme manager at the Flemish Public Broadcaster VRT/CANVAS. In late 2006, Pauwels left the broadcaster to become project manager of the initiative that has led to the creation the European Television and Media Management Academy (ETMA).
Known For
Two young men, one shy and one self-confident, spend a fast-paced night in Paris trying to pick up chicks. They confront every possible difficulty
The Chasers
Three erotic stories from classic writers Marguerite de Navarre, Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne and Guy de Maupassant.
The Secrets of Love: Three Rakish Tales
This true, astonishing story describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his control, Congo became a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. Leopold posed as the protector of Africans fleeing Arab slave-traders but, in reality, he carved out an empire based on terror to harvest rubber.
Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
This film tells the story of the unknown pre-history of the AIDS virus, long before people started to die in the US and Europe. Following a team of scientists we uncover a forgotten medical archive in the Democratic Republic of Congo, that tells of an epidemic a full two decades before anyone knew about the novel killer. From high-tech labs in the US to African medics who have their boots on the ground, we trace HIV back to its origin in the jungles of Cameroon. In the decades around the turn of the 20th century, colonialism fundamentally changed the lives of millions of people in central Africa; it created an environment that allowed HIV to leave its original host, the chimpanzee, and start to spread in humans.
The Bloody Truth
Short documentary on Belgian artist Piet Bekaert.
Piet Bekaert
All Rebels paints a picture of the young people who congregated around Amsterdam’s Leidseplein square in the days before wider protest movements broke out in the late ’60s and the ’70s. They kicked against the powers that be through wild parties, jazz music, unconventional clothing, long hair, smoking marihuana, uninhibited dancing and free love.