Paul Wilmshurst

Education

He attended The Leys School, studied English at, Cambridge and took a post-graduate course in journalism at City University, London.

Career

He has worked on three seasons of the Sky/Cinemax action-adventure series Strike Back and directed on the first series of David South. Goyer"s historical fantasy series Da Vinci"s Demons for StarZ and British Broadcasting Corporation America. After graduating, Wilmshurst started working in news and current affairs, then worked for a number of years as a researcher and director in formatted factual programmes, before persuading Channel 4 to send him to Las Vegas to make an authored documentary about a mafia lawyer He went on to make feature documentaries collaborating with novelist Luke Rhinehart and comedian Frank Skinner, before directing two separate year-long, three-part series for Channel 4: White Tribe (with Darcus Howe) and The Gambler (with Jonathan Rendall).

He then wrote and directed a handful of dramadocs: about cocaine dealing.

Pseudocide; the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. Alcoholism in the workplace.

And being kidnapped by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, telling the story of Chris Moon. The drama was well reviewed at the time and was later listed as one of the 50 Best Programmes of the Decade in The Times: "32: Forgiven (2006) lieutenant is easy to condemn child abuse.

lieutenant is much harder to try to understand it, to engage with the abuser and stop it from happening.

Paul Wilmshurst’s harrowing drama with Lucy Cohu showed unbelievable courage." He also wrote and directed the CBBC miniseries Runaway, produced and directed the British Academy of Film and Television Arts-nominated children"s series "Combat Kids", as well as directing episodes of long-running crime series Law & Order: United Kingdom, Silent Witness and Trial & Retribution.

Achievements

• He has received an International Emmy Award and two British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations. Mob Law was joint runner-up for the Joris Ivens Award at IDFA and won awards at the Las Vegas and San Francisco film festivals. Wilmshurst also wrote, produced and directed the 90-minute British Broadcasting Corporation dramatised documentary Hiroshima - shown in over 30 countries on the 60th anniversary of the bombing - which won an International Emmy for Best Documentary and a British Academy of Film and Television Arts for Best Visual Effects, shared between Gareth Edwards, Mike Tucker and Red Vision. In November 2008 actress Lucy Cohu won an international Emmy award for Best Actress for her role in the true-life drama Forgiven.