Films and clips can be seen on my vimeo channel: https://vimeo.com/channels/coxcam
Paul Cox has been a lighting cameraman and director/producer for over 30 years. Having completed an honours degree in music, he served his film-making apprenticeship at Thames Television, where he worked across a wide spectrum of programmes from drama to current affairs and acted as both camera assistant and cameraman to many well known directors and producers, including Jonathan Lewis, Michael Winterbottom, Stephen Frears, Alan Parker and Richard Attenborough.
Since starting his freelance career in 1991, Paul Cox has worked on award winning documentaries from Jonathan Lewis’s 4 part series about modern China to Frank Simmonds’ Organ Farm – a 3 part investigation into the secret, billion-dollar world of xeno-transplantation made for PBS and ITV.
He has photographed Arts documentaries (Renaissance Secrets, Hidden Treasure Houses), factual reality shows (US Wife Swap, Secret Millionaire) and presenter/celebrity led shows (Ramsey’s Best Restaurant, River Cottage, Gareth Malone’s Choir, Monty Don’s Mastercrafts, What Not to Wear, How to Look Good Naked, Wish You Were Here?). Over the years he has shot current affairs programmes (Panorama, Dispatches, This Week) with many producer/directors including Stephen Scott, Jo Woolf, Ollie Tait, Patrick Forbes and Joanna Bartholomew.
He also has extensive experience of fly-on-the-wall style documentaries that includes the BBC’s Bafta award winning series on the National Trust, How the Other Half Learns and When Michael Portillo became a Single Mum – a one hour documentary made by the BBC that featured the former Conservative Party Secretary of State for Defence, Michael Portillo, taking over as the ‘single mum’ of family of four in a run-down district of Liverpool. He also worked with Jane Treays on the 3 part observational documentary series Claridges.
He has filmed and directed a number of short films including four shorts for Jazz Alive featuring Soweto Kinch and Orphy Robinson and documentary records of Art installations for the artist, Jane Boyd. He regularly films and edits shows and promos for Hackney Empire and other theatre and dance companies.
He has recently finished “Stuff the World is Made of” – a film portrait of the Hebridean based sculptor, Steve Dilworth. Dilworth’s exhibition, Journeyman, is running until 8 June 2024 at Pangolin London:
Excerpts from China series – a BBC/PBS co-production:
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