Paul Murton

Skills:

Extensive shooting on 16mm, Super 8, VX100 and PD150, DSR 570, Sony Z1.
Keen stills photographer.
Mountaineering and sailing.
Full driving license.
Languages: Norwegian, German, Some French, Knowledge of Gaelic

Awards:

BAFTA nomination: Rebellion
BAFTA Scotland nominations: Seeker Reaper, The Blue Boy
Writers Guild: Seeker Reaper
Royal Television Society: Seeker Reaper
Celtic Film & Television Festival: Tin Fish, Seeker Reaper, The Blue Boy, Somhairle
Prix Archives Ethniques: St Kilda Wedding, Seeker Reaper

CV

2007

Highland Clans (Producer Director & Presenter)
6 x 30 min documentary series about the history of Scotland's Clans.
Mentorn Scotland for BBC Scotland

2006

Mr and Mrs Mackintosh (Producer/Director)
60 min doc for BBC about the life and loves of Scotland's most famous architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Mentorn Scotland for the BBC

A Chip on Both Shoulders (Producer/Director)
60 min special for with Charles Kennedy looking at the legacy of the Treaty of Union.
Mentorn Scotland for BBC Scotland and BBC 4.

2005

Car Nation (Producer/Director)
3 x 1hr observational documentary series exploring the realities of life behind the wheel on Britain's roads.
Denham Productions for BBC 2.

Voices (Series Director)
4 x 30 min series looking at the diversity of regional accents and dialects throughout the country BBC 2

The Big Scots Road Trip (Director)
One hour documentary exploring the regional diversity of spoken Scots. Hopscotch Films for BBC 2 Scotland

2004

Storms of War (Series Producer/Director)

5 x 30min series looking at the impact of the weather on 20th century warfare, in which presenter Vladimir Jancovic experiences extreme weather zones throughout the world. Jancovic then undergoes a series of punishing physiological and psychometric tests in laboratory to evaluate the effect of extreme weather on his own body. Discovery Channel

2002-2003

Writing Scotland (Writer/Director)
Television's first comprehensive history of Scottish Literature. Special challenges: to work within a limited budget and realise selected texts in a visually evocative way; communicating these ideas to a composer to produce an original score. Hopscotch Films for BBC Scotland and BBC 4

Days that Shook the World (Producer/Director)
Subjects covered include: the murder of the Tsar and his family, the end of the Berlin Wall, the splitting of the atom, and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Challenges: selecting appropriate archive, working on drama reconstruction abroad on a very tight budget and schedule, and getting believable performances from non-actors. BBC 2

Sword and the Cross (Director)
4 part dramatisation of Scotland's turbulent religious history. The challenge here was to make the subject matter as visual as possible. This included extensive battle re-enactments, hangings, burnings at the stake, and disembowelments etc. - all on a limited, documentary budget. BBC Scotland

2001-2002

River City (Director)
2 episodes of the Scottish Soap BBC Scotland

Scotland the Wild (Producer/Director)
6 part wildlife series. BBC 2 Scotland

Inside Scotland (Series Producer)
24-part documentary series. BBC Scotland

2000-2001

Landward (Series Producer) BBC Scotland

Casualty (Director) BBC

Fame and Fortune (Screen Writer) Feature script funded by Scottish Screen

Biggles Flies Undone Drama Documentary in development with BBC Factual

1999-2000

Somhairle (Writer/Director) Drama documentary about the poet Somhairle Macilleathain. BBC Scotland

The Bill (Director) 6 episodes of the police drama. Thames Television

Eirinn is Allaba (Producer/Director) Six-part documentary BBC co-production with RTE

1998-1999

Catriona (Screen Writer) Feature project in development.

The Bill (Director) 2 one-hour episodes of the police drama. Thames Television

The Bill(Director) 4 half-hour episodes. Thames Television

Tuned In (Producer/Directed) Documentary celebrating 75 years of BBC Scotland output. BBC Scotland

1997-1998

Casualty (Director) BBC

StirringTimes (Producer/Director) 4 x 30min Drama documentary history series. BBC Scotland

Bramwell II (Director) 2 episodes of the period medical drama. Carlton Television

1996-1997

St Kilda Wedding (Producer/Director) A one-hour drama documentary about life on St Kilda. BBC Scotland

1995-1996

Rebellion (Producer/Director) One-hour drama documentary about the Jacobite Rebellions. BBC 2

Cracking Stories (Director) 2 x half-hour documentaries. BBC Scotland

1994-1995

The Blue Boy (Writer/Director) One hour television drama. BBC Screen Two WMBH Boston

1993-1994

Seeker Reaper Writer/Director) Dramatisation of the life and work of the poet George Campbell Hay. BBC Scotland

1991-1993

Various directing work in Television including: BBC Scotland's Insiders, Edinburgh Nights, Ex-S. STV's Working Miracles, NB, Dirt Detectives, Channel Four's Short Stories.

Graduated as a Writer/Director from NFTS with Tin Fish - a drama about a US Submarine base in Scotland.

Education:

Graduate of the National Film and Television School. Honours Degree in Philosophy from the University of Aberdeen.

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