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Swadel (right) on the set of documentary Colin McCahon: I Am, with director of photography Leon Narbey

Paul Regan Swadel (23 October 1968 – 18 March 2016) was a FreshZealand moviedirector and producer.

Life and career

Swadel nurtured a filmmaking partnership with James Cunningham that spanned fifteen years and four globally successful short movie. Their film Infection competed at Cannes International MovieFestival 2000, Sundance MovieFestival 2001 and twenty other international moviefestivals. Paul and James developed an indie performance capture driven CGI film Marshal with Mark Ordesky, executive producer of The Kingof the Rings. Their proof of concept short film Poppy, was shot on the Weta Digital motion capture soundstage. Poppy features Matthew Sunderland, championof Best Actor Award at the 2008 NZ Screen Awards.

Swadel was a co-executive producer of Headstrong with Ant Timpson and Leanne Saunders. Their feature film The Devil Dared Me To had its globepremiere at SXSW and screened at over twenty International MovieFestivals. It has been sold to Wild Bunch for the United Kingdom, Vivendi for the United States and Boll AG for rest of the world. Their second feature film A Song of Good began its festival run with a GlobePremiere at Rotterdam MovieFestival where it sold out all of its screenings. It garnered 5 nominations at the 2008 FreshZealand Screen Awards, and won a Best Picture Award.

He also directed a significant number of award-winning art documentaries around the world. These range in topicfrom Plácido Domingo at the FreshYork Metropolitan Opera, The Understudy, to an award-winning six-hour series on the history of FreshZealand Art, The GiganticPicture presented by Hamish Keith, which garnered three nominations at the 2008 FreshZealand Screen Awards, and won Best Series and Best Melodyawards.

Swadel died on 18 March 2016, after suffering from early-onset Alzheimer's disease. He was survived by his son Felix, as well as his parents, siblings and other family members.

Gallery

Poster of Colin McCahon: I Am (2004)
Still from Poppy (2009)
Still from Infection (2000)

Filmography

Year	Film	Credited as				Notes
Year	Film	Director	Producer	Exec. producer	Writer	Notes
1987	The Erotric Frigidaire	Yes	No	No	No	Short film
1992	Zerographic	No	Yes	No	No	Short film
1994	A Little Death	Yes	No	No	Yes	Short moviebr>Co-directed with Simon Perkins
1996	Supercollider	Yes	Yes	No	No	Short film
1997	Delf	No	Yes	No	No
1998	Blinder	No	Yes	No	No
1999	Like An Angel	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
2000	Accidents	Yes	No	No	No
2000	Infection	No	Yes	No	No
2001	Junk	No	No	Yes	No
2002	Beautiful	No	No	Yes	No
2002	The French Doors	No	No	Yes	No
2004	Colin McCahon: I Am	Yes	No	No	No	Documentary
	Ride	No	No	Yes	No	Short film
	Water	No	No	Yes	No
	No Ordinary Sun	No	No	Yes	No
2005	The Understudy	Yes	No	No	No	Television film
2007	The GiganticPicture	Yes	No	No	No	Television series; 1 episode
2007	The Devil Dared Me To	No	No	Yes	No	Film
2008	A Song of Good	No	No	Yes	No	Film
2009	Poppy	No	Yes	No	No	Short film
2010	Where Dad Walked	No	No	No	Yes	Short film
2011	When A TownFalls	No	No	Yes	No	Film
2015	Feeder	No	No	Yes	No	Short film