Biography
Cole Paviour is an award-winning British filmmaker and screenwriter based in London. He began his career directing a short film for Warner Bros. smash hit Godzilla (2014) and followed it up by writing and directing charity advertisments for RSPCA, Drinkwise UK and HSBC as well as a six-part documentary series shot in Kenya for Mazda & TED.
In 2012 he directed ‘Cymatics’ for Sony which was featured in the The Daily Mail, The Indepedent and Digital Spy. He wrote and directed short film ‘Twin’ for the 100hr Film Racing 2015 competition earning second place. In 2017 he directed ‘Water Made Active’ for Gatorade, shot a stop-motion human figure made entirely of water droplets, a first-of-its-kind physics defying technological experiment achieved entirely in-camera.
The project saw him put his stamp firmly on the industry by conceiving and creating brand new filmmaking technologies to enable the photography of liquid droplets falling millimetres apart and at millisecond intervals. This ground-breaking cinematic innovation became a viral online sensation, and earned him Gold and Silver Lions at the industry-leading Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, Gold and Silver Pencils at The One Show Awards, as well as Silver and Bronze Clios at the Clio Awards.
In 2018 he directed a charity awareness piece for Richard Curtis’ foundation Project Everyone which as screened for World Leaders at the UN General Assembly. His latest short film ‘Walkies’ premiered at the London Short Film Festival 2019 and played at Reading Fringe Festival.
In 2012 he directed ‘Cymatics’ for Sony which was featured in the The Daily Mail, The Indepedent and Digital Spy. He wrote and directed short film ‘Twin’ for the 100hr Film Racing 2015 competition earning second place. In 2017 he directed ‘Water Made Active’ for Gatorade, shot a stop-motion human figure made entirely of water droplets, a first-of-its-kind physics defying technological experiment achieved entirely in-camera.
The project saw him put his stamp firmly on the industry by conceiving and creating brand new filmmaking technologies to enable the photography of liquid droplets falling millimetres apart and at millisecond intervals. This ground-breaking cinematic innovation became a viral online sensation, and earned him Gold and Silver Lions at the industry-leading Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, Gold and Silver Pencils at The One Show Awards, as well as Silver and Bronze Clios at the Clio Awards.
In 2018 he directed a charity awareness piece for Richard Curtis’ foundation Project Everyone which as screened for World Leaders at the UN General Assembly. His latest short film ‘Walkies’ premiered at the London Short Film Festival 2019 and played at Reading Fringe Festival.