Head of Jury for Super Short Screenplays
Paul Andrews is an American screenwriter, who in 2005 Paul established international television production and media sales company GlobalWatch, working with a host of multi-national companies at CEO level. He has interviewed and collaborated with senior government officials. Paul established
GlobalWatch Films in 2013 to produce a slate of feature films, from lower budget comedies and psychological horror features to larger budget films aimed at the North American studio market. He completed six films in 2016/17 which have all made profits for investors and has a slate of nine high profile projects in development with Oscar Winning/Nominated partners including three more projects with Tom Keneally (Man Booker Prize winning author of Schindler's List, later and 7 Oscar Winning Spielberg films). Paul's two most recent films have both won multiple international awards. Anglo-Indian film Boogie Man and Canadian co-production Juliana & the Medicine Fish have won 60 international awards between them, with 5 additional nominations. He is also a multi-award-winning writer in his own right, with writing projects that he has contributed to or written himself, achieving 30 wins across four screenplays. These projects include Irish epic The Great Hunger, gangster/crime movie Gorger, historical drama An Island Apart, and coming-of-age/gang/drama project On Par.
