Heavy Load wins Audience Award at Britdoc
September director named one of Screen's Stars of Tomorrow
Los Angeles Times gives Heavy Load a great review
Heavy Load Gig in New York
Heavy Load premieres at South by Southwest
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Paul Morrison
Paul Morrison has a distinguished track record as a drama and documentary maker both as a writer and a director. He was Oscar nominated for his first feature Solomon & Gaenor in the year 2000. His second film Wondrous Oblivion has also won many awards and was released widely across the UK to much critical acclaim in 2004, and in the US in 2006. Contact: paul@metfilm.co.uk
His documentary work includes From Bitter Earth and John and Yoko for the BBC, and the Channel 4 series A Change of Mind and A Sense of Belonging. His film Like Other People won the Grierson award for Best UK Documentary.
Paul has just completed filming on his third feature film Little Ashes, starring Robert Pattison, Javier Beltran and Matthew McNulty.
Projects in development include Charlotte, the story of artist Charlotte Salomon which Paul is attached to direct, starring Samantha Morton and Marcia Gay Harden. He has recently completed the Chicago-set screenplay Me & Big Joe, about the friendship between an older black blues musician and a young white guitarist, for production in 2009.
Paul also acts as executive producer on a number of Met Film productions.
The New York Times
Heavy Load: "It’s about struggle, the efforts of an ensemble wrestling with artistic obstacles as well as biological ones. It’s also a portrait of British band life: playing in smoky pubs and studios and at outdoor concerts and hustling tracks to a music publisher. And it is a portrait of a nation with social services and a public so compassionate it makes our own look heartless."
