Paul Olding

I am an award winning Tv and Film Director and Producer. My films include the acclaimed drama doc The Genius Sperm Bank, the award winning Earth Power of the Planet with Prof Iain Stewart, uncovering Darwin’s Dangerous Idea with Andrew Marr, explorations of Gravity and Time with Prof Brian Cox and more recently the multi award winning Wonders of the Solar System. The underwater wonders around the British coast were revealed with Britain’s Secret Seas with explorer Paul Rose. Then there’s the evolution of human behaviour in Origins of Us with Prof Alice Roberts and the underwater archaeology of a mysterious bronze age city off the coast of Greece with City Beneath the Waves: Pavlopetri. Currently working with Prof Brian Cox (again) on Wonders of Life.

I also run my own award winning independent Movie production

company Bongo Reef Pictures which makes film shorts, our

most recent being the Super8 films Help Wanted and Lonely Boy, and

our HiDef short Losing the Plot, all currently showing at Festivals.

I have a fair bit of experience as a self shooting HD cameraman,

including underwater (HSE Media Scuba), tapeless systems and specialist cameras. Another new venture is DandPTimelapse Photography.

I am also a published writer and photographer.

A zoologist by training, I have a doctorate from Oxford University in Australian Microhylid frog calls. I have specialist knowledge in frogs, reptiles and mammals, take an active interest in the public understanding of science, and regularly give illustrated talks to primary schools on ecology, geology and the solar system. I also have a small vineyard called OldingManor and make my own wine.

Contact Me: Tel 07970 155303

Email: paul@paulolding.co.uk