Paul Arnott
Director/Producer
Paul is the Creative Director of Moondance Productions.
As a TV and Film Producer he helmed C4’s coverage
of Cannes, Edinburgh, the Oscars, the Booker Prize
and festivals from Bangalore to New York, as well
as series editing a Channel 4 daily arts show for
Mentorn. As executive producer he went on to set
up Guardian TV. Through his own company, Edenwood
he produced a feature film with the RSC for Miramax
and Channel 4 of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
and producer/directed arts documentaries for BBC
and Channel 4. As Executive Producer of Moondance
he made a documentary for RTE on Rowan Gillespie.
As a writer he had made complex historical stories
into critically acclaimed books. A Good Likeness
(Little Brown) was a personally driven history
of adoption from an Irish family into an English
one, Let Me Eat Cake (Sceptre), a confessional
history of sugar and confectionery, and Is Anybody
Up There (Sceptre ’08) is a personal history
of every god, sect, creed, and faith known to
man
