Biography

Paul Armstrong is an award-winning Vancouver, BC, Canada film, television and theatre producer.

Paul is the founder, programmer and producer of The Celluloid Social Club, a screening event of short films since 1997. Paul is also the the President of the Board of Crazy8s, the 8 day short filmmaking founded in 1999. Prior to that he was the Executive Director of Crazy8s 2013-2022.

Feature film credits include the documentary 'Cool Daddy' for CBC Doc Channel directed by Roger Larry, and '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 in post-production on the documentary 'Revolution, The Legacy of the Sixties'.

Short film credits include 54 films through Crazy8s; 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.
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