Paul Skillen
- Writer
Paul Skillen started out writing radio comedy and was a BBC New Talent Winner. In 2022 he was selected by British Film Institute to attend their flagship talent development programme at London Film Festival and spoke to emerging film makers at the London-Irish Film festival.
His recent short films-'THE FAMILIAR STING' (2020) and 'THE SILENCE BETWEEN' (2022) - deal with issues of homelessness and a musical prodigy from the wrong side of the tracks. Both were funded by NI Screen and BFI. Paul has various credits with BBC Radio, BBC Bytesize and recently developed a series of animations for the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission
His aspirational social drama feature screenplay 'THE MUSIC TEACHER' and paranoid thriller 'THE GIRL' have both been optioned and are in development.
Paul is exploring opportunities for his children's fantasy feature screenplay 'GIANT' and police procedural sci-fi series CROSSING POINT.
Paul also co-writes with Aaron Gray. BELOW, their eco-horror series, produced by Hat Trick-Mercurio, is available on Amazon Audible. It won the Best Fiction at the Irish Podcast Awards 2023 and Best Sound Design at the UK Audio Production Awards 2023. Their folk horror feature, MAIDENSANDS, is in development with a LA based production company. Other credits include a pre-apocalyptic television pilot 'DINOSAURS' (2016), which was broadcast on RTE, and sci-fi shorts 'THE WAY BACK' and 'ECHOES' which won international awards securing UK and USA broadcasts. In 2022 they were shortlisted for the Element Pictures Writers Award with their TV thriller idea GRAVEYARD SHIFT.
His recent short films-'THE FAMILIAR STING' (2020) and 'THE SILENCE BETWEEN' (2022) - deal with issues of homelessness and a musical prodigy from the wrong side of the tracks. Both were funded by NI Screen and BFI. Paul has various credits with BBC Radio, BBC Bytesize and recently developed a series of animations for the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission
His aspirational social drama feature screenplay 'THE MUSIC TEACHER' and paranoid thriller 'THE GIRL' have both been optioned and are in development.
Paul is exploring opportunities for his children's fantasy feature screenplay 'GIANT' and police procedural sci-fi series CROSSING POINT.
Paul also co-writes with Aaron Gray. BELOW, their eco-horror series, produced by Hat Trick-Mercurio, is available on Amazon Audible. It won the Best Fiction at the Irish Podcast Awards 2023 and Best Sound Design at the UK Audio Production Awards 2023. Their folk horror feature, MAIDENSANDS, is in development with a LA based production company. Other credits include a pre-apocalyptic television pilot 'DINOSAURS' (2016), which was broadcast on RTE, and sci-fi shorts 'THE WAY BACK' and 'ECHOES' which won international awards securing UK and USA broadcasts. In 2022 they were shortlisted for the Element Pictures Writers Award with their TV thriller idea GRAVEYARD SHIFT.