Paul Armstrong is an award-winning Vancouver film, television and theatre producer.
Paul is the founder, programmer and producer of The Celluloid Social Club, a monthly screening of short films since 1997. Paul is also the Executive Director of Crazy8s, the 8 day short filmmaking founded in 1999. He also occasionally event produces for The First Weekend Club, which promotes the release of Canadian feature films.
Feature film credits include ‘Lawrence & Holloman’ based on the play by Morris Panych, written by Daniel Arnold & Matthew Kowalchuk, and directed by Kowalchuk. Among other awards the film won Best Feature at the 2014 Canadian Comedy Awards; ‘Moving Malcolm’ by Benjamin Ratner starring Elizabeth Berkley (‘Showgirls’); the Genie Award nominated ‘See Grace Fly’ by Pete McCormack and ‘Ill-Fated’ starring Peter Outerbridge, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and in the US at Slamdance. He is currently in production on the documentary ‘Revolution, The Legacy of the Sixties’.
Short film credits include the record breaking 13 Leo Award winning ‘Anxious Oswald Greene’ by Marshall Axani, ‘The Money Pet’ featuring Alan Cumming (‘The Good Wife’), ‘Monster’ & ‘Everything’s Coming up Rosie’ starring Jodelle Ferland (‘Twilight’) & Ian Tracey, ‘The Bar’ starring Peter Deluise (’21 Jump Street’), ‘Break a Leg, Rosie’ starring Carly Pope (‘Popular’) & Ian Tracey, and ‘Mon amour mon parapluie’ with cameos by William Gibson & Douglas Coupland.
Paul has also produced TV commercials with Adplay Media for WirelessWave, produced music videos for Bif Naked, Jim Byrnes, Jessie Farrell and Jeff Martin of the Tea Party and produced 20 plays, from Shakespeare to Ibsen to Mamet.