Biography

Paul Kowalski is an award-winning writer-director whose films center around identity, exile and obsession, often featuring dark psychologies and the supernatural. His film SARDINIA won Best Director Grand Prize at the 2024 Flickers Rhode Island film festival, and is long-listed for the 2025 Academy Awards. Executive producer Patton Oswalt called it “an effortlessly original piece of work…beyond timely”; the film stars FIRST REFORMED’s Philip Ettinger, and Emmy-winner Martha Plimpton. Paul’s 2021 debut feature PAPER TIGER won the Audience Award and a Jury Prize at the Austin Film Festival, and was subsequently sold by Gersh and distributed onto Amazon. Born in the UK to Polish immigrants, Paul grew up in England, the Middle East, Poland, Africa, Southeast Asia and across America – sparking a natural impulse to reconcile contrasting views of the world.