Paul Shore (2003 - 2004)

Canada

The Sauvé experience broadened my horizons immeasurably. It also provided me with a whole new range of issues I wanted to explore through my work. Meeting and developing relations with the diverse group of Scholars spanning the world was the highlight for me. I was not only reflecting about my place in the world, but also privy to the experiences, sometimes tragic, of some other unique and passionate individuals.

Paul is a documentary director, television news producer and social entrepreneur. He was Canada Bureau Chief for the award-winning independent global news network, Guerrilla News Network for 5 years, Co-Founder of the Canadian NGO Apathy Is Boring, and has worked as a “youth-oriented” consultant and producer for many foundations and corporations (www.youthfriendly.com)

Prior to making his 2002 directorial debut for Guerrilla News Network, “IBM and the Holocaust”, he worked in the newsrooms of CNN and Fox News as a production assistant and an overnight writer. He then worked at MTV as a casting director, at Globalvision as a producer for PBS and CBS, and at Transform Media, where he shot and produced over 15 mini music documentaries.

Upon his return to Canada, Paul was a recipient of a Bravo TV Canada grant for his film “Grafitti 101: For Ages 40 and Up”.

As a Sauvé Scholar, he worked on a sex workers documentary, trained print journalists in documentary production and co-founded Apathy Is Boring, a non-partisan organization that uses sarcasm, media, art and technology to engage youth in Canadian politics.

In 2007, Paul produced and directed a series of five mini-documentaries for CBC News entitled The Shadow Reports.

Currently, he freelances as a one-man-band TV news producer, and does strategic media consulting for a variety of foundations and green start-ups.  He also sits on the Board of the Atwater Library Digital Literacy Project. Some of Paul’s work as a videojournalist and consultant can be found at www.paulshore.net.

Paul is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and lives in Montreal.

Country of origin

Canada