Paul Gerstenberger began writing when he was eleven years old, with a script that made it through to the second stage of a school filmmaking contest. Four years later, in 1995, a short script he wrote about the end of the world made it through to the quarterfinals of the Lloyds Bank Film challenge, whereby he was able to workshop the script with the other finalists as well as professional-screenwriters.
A year later, Paul went to University in Southampton to study Film. His dissertation script was a film set during the Holocaust called THE WATERS COVER THE SEA. Paul graduated with an MA in Film and Filmmaking in 2001, the same year he wrote FAKERS.
Since FAKERS Paul has worked on an eclectic mix of projects, including a children's film called ELVIS THE HAMSTER for Richard Janes, an as yet untitled US-set coming-of age film for Todd Kleparski and Claire Bee and a treatment for a Bollywood-flavoured comedy drama set in '60's London. He has also written and produced a short film called THY RIGHT HAND - a black comedy about a man with a talking penis that compels him to kill.
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