Paul Kmiec

Producer

Paul is an award-winning filmmaker and educator from Massachusetts. He received his BFA in Filmmaking from the SUNY Purchase Film Conservatory in New York and his Master's in Film & Television from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Paul's films have screened at festivals and events in Hollywood, Northern California, Chicago, Florida, New Mexico, Texas, Michigan, France, Italy, Romania, Greece, and the Jacob Burns Film Centre in New York.

Recently his short, Stay for Tea, was awarded Best Fiction Film at the 2021 Vermont International Film Festival (Made Here Festival) and was featured on Vermont PBS Television. Stay for Tea also won the Audience Favorite Award and the Gondry Award for Best Surrealist Film at the Austin Arthouse Film Festival (2020). Paul's 2019 film, Skye, won Best Direction and Best Actress at the Symi Int'l Film Festival in Greece.