Paul Crompton

Award winning Director with over 20 years' experience for TV docs, TV commercials and  feature-docs for cinema release. From age 16 Paul spent 6 years in nuclear engineering, whilst also spending nights and weekends in the music industry and dabbling with scripted comedy. He was picked up by Granada TV as a director for a series on local politics and also worked with Basement Video on public performance art pieces and live gigs.
 
 Currently, Paul works freelance as an Executive Producer and, occasionally, as a Director. In July 2017 he made his first TV commercial, for West Ham United. He has had three documentaries win awards at film festivals; The Limbless Mountaineer, The Lady Who Flew Africa: The Aviatrix and in 2017 the West Ham United feature-doc Iron Men.
 
He directed BBC Four’s hit series, “Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea” which was nominated for a BAFTA and short-listed for a Grierson Award. He has excellent relationships with TV talent as well as commissioners and channel controllers. His skills include: negotiating access to institutions and families; setting the style for filming and editing; script-writing; structuring stories; establishing and finessing factual formats; and running big teams.
 
As a broadcaster, he oversaw factual at Sky1, working with Sir David Frost, JR Ewing, Danny Wallace and James Nesbitt.  Paul was also in the commissioning team at Channel 5 as well part of the set up of 5Prods, the in-house prodco, recently renamed Elephant House. In 2015 he was in the factual team at ITV with Richard Klein and Jo Clinton-Davis, responsible for pre-watershed series such as Love Your Garden with Alan Titchmarsh, Gino's Italian Adventure and high end single docs Raining In My Heart and Secret Life of Twins.