David Paul nzcs

Producer: Yvonne Mackay - Productionshed.tv

Director: Yvonne Mackay

Cinematographer: David Paul NZCS

Award: Bronze - NZCS Awards 2017 (New Zealand Cinematographers Society)

A feature lenght docu-drama about a  miscarrigae of justice.

Documentary about Stephen Versalco and his ponzi scheme within the ASB bank.

Producer: KHF Media

Director: Thomas Robins

Director of Photography: David Paul

Award: Won - Best Cinematography ( Factual )

AFTA 2011 ( Aotearoa Film Television Awards)

Production Company Retinae Productions

Producer Sarah Wensley

Writer/Director Jason Lei Howden

Cinematographer David Paul

Production Company: Great Southern Film and Tv / Radio New Zealand

Exec Producer: Carmen Leonard / Annebelle Lee

Producers: Colin McRae , Adrian Stevanon

Drama Director: Simon Bennett

Documentary Director: Cameron Bennett

Drama Cinematographer: David Paul NZCS

Documentary Dop: Arthur Rasmussen

I was asked to join the NZ Wars team and Director Simon Bennett to shoot the drama and Haka sequences for this fantastic wee doco. Shot over 2 days on a tight budget we had an awesome crew who understood the significance of telling such important stories.

Awards: Won - Best Innovation in Digital Storytelling Award at Voyager Media Awards

Produced by: Jeremy Macey

Director: Thomas Robins

Writer: Sarah Boddy

A gorgeous good fun film and one of my favourite shorts I've done.

Words can not describe the amazing, fulfilling experience we all had shooting this doco over several years as funds became available, on different cameras and shooting when and where we could on the smell of an oily rag. This is a critical story to be told for Aotearoa and Tahiti.

Production Company Island Films Aotearoa / Oceania Film

Producer Eliane Koller

Director Lala Rolls

Cinematographer David Paul

Featuring Michel Tuffery , Kirk Torrence and Professor Paul Tapsell

In 1769 Tupaia, a Tahitian high priest, sailed on the Endeavour into unchartered waters. A navigator, diplomat, artist and explorer; it was he who ensured Cook’s success, indeed some say his survival, on his first Pacific voyage. Two modern day Polynesian explorers are on a quest to bring the story of their ancestor to light.

When the Endeavour sailed over the Tahitian horizon, Tupaia, a high priest and intellectual, could see change coming and made the decision to embrace an opportunity. He became a diplomat, politician, artist and interpreter on the British ship. When they arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand, it appeared to Māori as if it was he, not Captain James Cook, who commanded the Endeavour.

Tupaia’s Endeavour is a story about an extraordinary Tahitian who was a visionary and the key to Cook’s survival in his encounters with the Polynesians of Tahiti and New Zealand. It is also a story of two modern day Polynesian men who follow their ancestor on their own Arioi (knowledge sharing) voyage in 2012.

This film presents Captain Cook’s first Pacific voyage, this time, through the eyes of the people of the Pacific.

This film is currently in development.

Not sure where this successful Web series sits as far as genre goes...but it was a fun crazy 4 week road trip in a toyota estima from Bluff to Cape Reinga withNua Finau and Megan Heffern ....it's sort of improv - doco - drama - reality. Totally unscripted these 2 actors weaved their way north meeting interesting locals in small towns the length of NZ.

Creator/Producer/Director: Thomas Robins

Director of Photography: David Paul

B-Camera: Matt Tuffin

Cameras: Sony F55 , F3 + Black Magic Pocket camera and even a couple of shots from my Fuji X100s.

Producer: KHF Media

Directors/Creators: Thomas Robins/David Stubbs

Director of Photography: David Paul

We shot this brilliant new and unique interactive Web drama over 2 days per week. The online audience were able to influence the story by sending texts to the lead character. On a budget I went back to the Sony EX1 and Ex3 with nano HD recorders which I'd had success with in the past on low budget drama..a couple of lens adaptors and nikkor primes also helped out.

Reservoir Hill received two Emmy nominations.The first season won the coveted award in 2010 making KHF Media the first New Zealand company to win an International Emmy award. 

Award: Won - Emmy Award 2010

             Won - Gold World Medal , New York Festivals International Film and Television Awards 2011

Director : David Paul

Director of Photography: David Paul

I shot and directed this for Tourist on the central plateau. The usual $5k music video shoot. Bedded down in a cheap but charming motel at Waiouru and hit it hard the next day.

Camera: Arri SRII + kodak s16mm stock.

Award: Finalist - Best Video ( Rock)  Juice Tv Awards 2007

While I sort an embed code please go to this link at NZ on Screen to watch this gorgeous wee short doco.

http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/tuwhare-2005

Producer: Charlotte Yates

Director: Lala Rolls

Director of Photography: David Paul

The opportunity to shoot such projects isa privilege and honour. To spend a couple of days with Hone Tuwhare was Amazing. It was a very small shoot-just Charlotte , Lala and myself and a dvcam.

Toi Māori Aotearoa engaged Charlotte Yates to produce an album and stage performance celebrating the verse of poet Hone Tuwhare. Yates co-opted various musicians (e.g. Dallas Tamaira, Graham Brazier) to transform Tuwhare's poetry into lyrics using a range of music from rock to dub. This short film by Lala Rolls was commissioned for the album launch; the material was also used in the live show. We see Tuwhare at home at Kaka Point and reciting his poetry against the songs, along the way glimpsing his warmth, humour and literary verve.