Production

Paul Welsh

Place of birth

Scotland, UK

Known for

Production

Credits

20 titles

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 Aus…

Known for

Behind the camera

Lore poster
6.7

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

2012

No artwork available
NR

The future. Bovey, Wilson and Stoichita are the crew of the Akhenaten, a tiny deep space research vessel experimenting with crop growth under alien sunlight. When Wilson, Stoichita and the wheat crops are unexpectedly exposed to an alien energy, their deeply repressed underlying urges come to the fore.

The Harvest

2006

No artwork available
NR

A story of unrequited love and the magic of the movies. Two lost souls trapped in the basement of a vast film studio. Thomas loves Ruby, Ruby just wants out.

Ruby

1997

No artwork available
NR

A son is caring for his dying mother, when a mysterious figure arrives one day calling out her name.

Death in a Nut

2012

No artwork available
NR

Lou may have Down's Syndrome but is more than capable of looking after herself. She lives with her controlling sister Ashley, who always gets what she wants. When a new man comes into their lives, the sisters become love rivals, bringing their relationship to a head.

Sweetheart

2011

No artwork available
10.0

A motorway, a woman, a telephone, a man, a car, another man. A short film about love in the city.

The Lovers

2000

No artwork available
10.0

A motorway, a woman, a telephone, a man, a car, another man. A short film about love in the city.

The Lovers

2000

No artwork available
NR

A man on a mission meets delays from a militant lollipop man, a boy on a scooter and a zimmerframe-toting pensioner before a waterside showdown and a date with destiny, tutus and Tchaikovsky.

Swansong

2002

Skeletons poster
5.7

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

2010

Lost in France poster
5.0

A new documentary explores the rise of Scotland's independent music scene in the '90s, led by cult label Chemikal Underground. On the journey, we revisit a defining, chaotic trip early in the musicians' careers, re-staging a concert in Brittany that connects the characters in life (and on stage) for the first time in many years.

Lost in France

2017

No artwork available
NR

Since 1974, Glasgow has produced seven and a half million tonnes of waste. Total Rubbish follows the men who get their hands dirty in a never-ending cycle of collection and disposal.

Total Rubbish

2004

No artwork available
NR

Since 1974, Glasgow has produced seven and a half million tonnes of waste. Total Rubbish follows the men who get their hands dirty in a never-ending cycle of collection and disposal.

Total Rubbish

2004

No artwork available
NR

The film presents the workers of the Nevis range, a ski development in the North West Highlands of Scotland.

Mountain People

2002

No artwork available
NR

The film presents the workers of the Nevis range, a ski development in the North West Highlands of Scotland.

Mountain People

2002

Winners poster
7.8

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

2023

Rite poster
3.8

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

2010

No artwork available
NR

Events conspire against a council driver who desperately wants to see the highlights of a Scotland match.

The Night Sweeper

1998

No artwork available
NR

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

2021

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NR

Jan, a man disillusioned with reality and entrapped in a cage of his own making by abusing excessive alcohol and drugs to numb his own existence, begins fantasizing about murdering his neighbour.

Roher Beton

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No artwork available
NR

Jan, a man disillusioned with reality and entrapped in a cage of his own making by abusing excessive alcohol and drugs to numb his own existence, begins fantasizing about murdering his neighbour.

Roher Beton

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