Paradigm Studio

Paradigm Studio is an independent film production company based on the West Coast of the U.S.A. It has produced the award-winning, coming-of-age drama AROUND THE FIRE currently scheduled for a 25th anniversary rerelease for streaming services, The New York Times acclaimed documentary feature film & series ICONS AMONG US: JAZZ IN PRESENT TENSE selected for AFI’s Project 20/20 sponsored by the President’s Council on the Arts & Humanities, NEA and NEH and Galway Film Festival best international documentary winner wildlife conservation documentary THE BREACH. Currently in release for the studio are WALLFLOWER a true-life music driven drama drawing raves in Variety and documentary MARSHWAN LYNCH: A HISTORY an experimental race and sports film composed entirely from the internet clips profiled in The New Yorker. Presently the studio is producing with Charles Hambleton (Academy Award winner THE COVE) and Johnny O’Hara’s (Sundance award winner FUEL) the feature length documentary KINSU MARU which tells the story of a South Pacific search to recover a sunken fortune whose gold will be used for the good of communities and the environment. VISIONS IN THE FIRE a film that braids indigenous glass sculptor Preston Singletary’s personal story/creative process together with his technical prowess and gift for collaboration as an ancestral Tlingit American. RUDE AWAKENING directed by Robinson Devor that unearths the story of Sara Jane Moore, the only woman to ever fire a shot at a U.S. President and completing a life sentence for doing so. The studio is also adapting a book for the screen by author David Harris entitled The Last Stand about resistance to the takeover of a great American family redwood timber company in the 1980’s by Wall Street junk bond kings. Its productions and presentations have been distributed by Netflix, Hulu, iTunes, Amazon, Showtime, Starz/Encore, Public Television, BMG Global/Deskpop Entertainment, Sundance Now, AFI, SXSW, SIFF and the Cannes Film Market.