Paul Malmont

Paul Malmont is a Copy Director at an interactive advertising agency in New York. He has written for the Cartoon Network, VH1.com, Pfizer, Ricoh, Microsoft and a host of other corporate clients. His work has also won awards from Communication Arts and The One Show, and has been included in Time Magazine's "Best of..." He has been hailed by aintitcool.com as one of 5 filmmakers "so cool we don't know why they haven't been discovered yet."

Paul's short film, The King of the Magicians, was a commendation winner at the UK Festival of Fantastic Films and premiered at the Los Angeles International Film Festival. He has been privileged to work on such legendary cinematic bombs as Bonfire of the Vanities, Hudson Hawk and The Last Action Hero, but he also worked on The Fisher King and Honeymoon in Vegas.

Paul grew up in Washington D.C., Virginia, Taiwan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, and counts among his ancestors an adjutant to Gen. Washington and the founders of Taunton, Massachusetts. His first pulp memories are of sneaking backstage during the Chinese operas performing near his parents' army base home in Taiwan. The actors would amuse themselves by painting his face in traditional Chinese theatrical fashion; thereafter as a dog, or a demon, or a wizened old man, he would terrorize the rest of his family. After returning to the United States, Paul studied opera singing and became an apprentice at a local summer stock theater. He attended Interlochen Arts Academy, and is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of Film & Television.

Paul has lived in New York for over 20 years and currently resides in Brooklyn with his wife and sons.