
Acting
Paul Gittins
Paul is an award-winning actor and director with a career that spans well over 30 years. Having been on screens since the early 1980s, Paul has amassed an enormous list of television and film credits too long to list in its entirety. He is often recognized for his role as 'Dr. Michael Mckenna' - one of the original core cast members on New Zealand’s longest-running soap "Shortland Street." He has appeared in lead roles in New Zealand television movies "Strongman" and "Safehouse", along with supporting and guest roles in the films "Other Halves", "Beyond the Known World", "Cave In", "Maiden Voyage" and "After the Waterfall." Other recent television credits include drama series "Harry", web series "Flat 3" and "Jonah: The Untold Story."
Acting credits
6.5The story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of Dwight D. Eisenhower's appointment as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, to the establishment of the beachhead in Normandy.
Ike: Countdown to D-Day
2004
6.4A 14-year-old girl who works at a racetrack trains a talking racehorse with issues, transforming him into a winner.
Ready to Run
2000
Andy’s friends confront both their own mortality and the deadly new disease stalking their community, while his conservative family grapples with never having come to terms with his sexuality.
A Death in the Family
1987
5.9An outbreak of avian flu mutates into a virus that becomes transmittable from human to human.
Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America
2006
6.1A forest ranger is haunted by the disappearance of his four-year-old daughter, and the subsequent breakup of his marriage. He discovers that his ex-wife Ana is pregnant to the policeman in charge of his missing daughter's case.
After the Waterfall
2010
7.7A Polynesian street-kid and a much older middle-class housewife are both incarcerated in the same mental hospital - she for attempted suicide and he for habitual crime. A friendship grows between them such that she offers him a place to stay upon his release. However, difficulties arise with his continued criminal activities and dependence on her for support - then his gang moves in with them. The film is based upon Sue McCauley's award winning autobiographical novel.
Other Halves
1984
4.0A high school teenager wakes up in a time of Amazons and Gods.
Amazon High
1997
6.2Safe House is the story of a struggle for survival in an unfamiliar and threatening world, based on the true life experience of a woman in the early days of the witness protection programme in New Zealand. TV Movie
Safe House
2012
7.5Family drama set in New Zealand about Geoff Crome, a young boy (Fulford) who immerses himself in his own private fantasy world where he meets Firpo (Papps), a strange being who dreams of being an Olympic athlete. Together, the two begin a close friendship as Geoff attempts to help Firpo realise his dream. However, it is not long until the adult world begins to impinge on his fantasy.
The End of the Golden Weather
1991
7.5When Kirk, a top roller-blader, discovers that he has bone cancer in his leg, his pleasant affluent life is shattered. Even though amputation provides the best chance for survival; to him, losing skating means the end of life. His friends cannot cope with his condition, but his hospital isolation is relieved by Marty - a street kid survivor who was found dying of leukemia. Marty bullies, taunts, and challenges Kirk, until he begins to climb out of his depression. Marty seems afraid of nothing and, knowing she will die, wants to experience everything.
The Whole of the Moon
1996
4.6A photographer's life becomes dangerous when one of his models is murdered.
Exposure
2001