PAUL ASHBY
Line Producer
paul.ashby@hotmail.co.uk
m 07831 376 235
Personal Details
Films
Fluent French
Line Producer (Pre-production)
“Candle to Water” by N J Green
Producer/Director: Nihat Seven
Blind Pictures Ltd.
Feature film
HDCam
Education
BSc - Psychology
Training
People Management and Leadership Skills
Via Production Guild (of GB)
Tutor: Sue Scott Patterson
[Skillset bursary]
H & S – 1st Option (online)
[Skillset bursary]
Movie Magic Scheduling / Budgeting
London Film School
Feature Film Finance
Arista Development (Alan Harris)
Various script development courses:
Arista Development (Stephen Cleary)
Producing @ National Film & Television School
(as external student – 1 year)
Drama Production Management
NSCTP @ NFTS, Tutor: Sue Mather
Panico Film Foundation Course
Head Tutor: Bob Doyle.
Single Camera Drama Directing
Tutor: Patrick Tucker (freelance TV & theatre director)
Line Producer
“Hard Shoulder”
Producers: Gaby Lederman / Mark Booth
Director / Writer: Nick Lean
WhyteBooth Pictures Ltd.
Feature film
35mm
Line Producer
“Seven Africans”
Producer/Director: Tes Asfaw
Self Help Productions Ltd.
Feature film
HDCam
UK Line Producer
“Shadows of Faberge”
Producer/Writer: Vladimir Sinelnikov
Director/Writer: Alexander Borodainski
Studio Clotho (Moscow)
Feature film and 4 x 1 hour documentary
35 mm & DigiBeta
Associate Producer
“Emma Blue”
Writer/Director: Bob MacLean
Pretentious Pictures
Feature film
Super 16mm / HD post
http://pro.imdb.com/title/tt1043841/
Cannes Independent Film Festival 2010
1st AD
“Cold Fish” by Graham Cristie
& P J Swinburne
Produced & Directed by David Fairman
Opus Pictures Ltd.
Feature Super 16mm
UPM
“Holding On” Produced and
Directed by Afonso Reis e Sousa
Altered Perceptions Ltd.
Welsh Intnl. Film Fest ‘98
Feature Super 16mm
Basic & Advanced Television Studio Production
Tutor: Phil Thompson (Retired Senior BBC Production
Instructor)
Ealing College, Thames Valley University.
Theatre Directing - Questors Theatre
(an internal training/assessment programme for new
directors)
Acting for Television - Tutor: Jack Gold
(freelance film and TV director)
Writing for Television - Tutor: Pauline
Delaney (freelance TV writer)
One year post graduate Diploma in Acting:
The Drama Studio London
Producer 5 short comedy films
Articulate Pictures Ltd. (own company)
www.articulate-pictures.co.uk
PM or 1st AD on over thirty short films, on all film and video
formats.
….contd./
TV
1
Line Producer
“Alan Turing” (W/T)
Producer/Director: Clare Beavan
Writer: Craig Warner
Furnace Ltd.
Feature length drama-doc for C4
HD (Canon 5D)
UK Producer “Broadside”
(US main) Producer: Bruce Twickler
Drama Director: David Hickman
Docema LLC for PBS and a UK broadcaster
2 x 1 hour drama documentary
http://broadsidethefilm.org/
HDcam
Line Producer
“The Mystery Da Vinci”
Producer/Director: Lisa Sabina Harney
Fulcrum TV for Discover / ‘five’
1 x 90’ drama documentary HD
Production Accountant
“Casanova’s Love Letters”
Director: Mark Murphy
Producer: Constantine de Naray
Exec Prod: Yvette Hoyle
6 x 1 hr drama documentary HD
“Reel Wars”
For Discovery Channel (EU)
5 X ½ hour factual entertainment
“SPCA Hong Kong” (W/T)
For UK Horizons
13 X ½ hour documentary
“Life At The Sport”
For Channel 5
3 X ½ hr. factual entertainment
I introduced Rico Daniels to Attaboy TV and together they
created “The Salvager” (www.thesalvager.com) for
Discovery EU.
Theatre (all at The Questors Theatre, Ealing)
Director "Guarded Territories"
by Lawrence LeBarge.
A new play. Rehearsed reading.
Director “Just Us" by Michael Law.
A short, new play.
Director "At Home With The MacBeths"
by William Shakespeare, adapted by
Paul Ashby. A fifty minute version
for three actors. Rehearsed reading
Production Manager
“Days That Shook the World”
Prod /Dir: various
Exec. Producer: Richard Bradley
Lion Television for BBC / History Channel
12 X 1 hr. drama/doc (shown as 23 x ½ hr. plus 1 x
1 hr. “special”)
Digibeta
Director "The Looking-Glass Lesson" adapted
by Paul Ashby from "The Lesson" by
Eugene Ionesco and the writings of
Charles Dodgson/Lewis Carroll.
In house PM for Attaboy TV
Script Assessor The Questors Theatre
6 x “Road Movies” - short films
“Safe” written/directed by David Cheng
“Too Bad” written/directed by Orlando Stewart
“Vow” written/directed by Siobhan Fogarty
“Lollipop” written/directed by Matt Harlock
“Surf’s Up” written/directed by Martin Morrison
“The Meeting” written/directed by Julia Delmas
Documentary directed by Nicky Hillel
Producers: Mike Wood, Dan Allum
For Channel 4 Later
6 X ½ hr. “making of...” documentaries incorporating
6 X 10 min. short films
Director "Neon Gravy" by Richard Hayton.
A short, new play adapted in
collaboration with Paul Ashby
Actor Eight years, culminating in
‘The Late Shakespeares’:
“The Tempest”, “A Winter’s Tale”
& “Cymbeline” by William Shakespeare
Director: Sir Peter Hall
(Royal) National Theatre & tour
“The Great Escape”
For Discovery Channel (EU)
12 X ½ hour factual entertainment
“Celebrity South West”
For Carlton SW
6 X ½ hour factual entertainment
Presenter: Philip Schofield
….contd./
Memberships
2
Production Manager’s Association - a restricted entry
professional body for production executives
(Executive Committee member 2007–09, and 2011 / present)
The Production Guild of Great Britain – a restricted entry
guild for film and TV production and accounting personnel
References
Mark Booth, Producer, WhyteBooth Ltd.
mark@whytebooth.com
Bruce Twickler, Producer, Docema LLC
bruce@docema.com
Please also see my “recommendations”
On my LinkedIn profile
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=62329148&trk=tab_p
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12 / 03 / 2012
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