Paul G. Boyle is a Canadian award winning documentary filmmaker based in Hong Kong.
He came to prominence in 2008 with a documentary Coming Clean

Early life

Boyle moved to Hong Kong in 1993. He was born in Windsor, Ontario

Windsor, Ontario

Windsor is the southernmost city in Canada and is located in Southwestern Ontario at the western end of the heavily populated Quebec City – Windsor Corridor. It is within Essex County, Ontario, although administratively separated from the county government. Separated by the Detroit River, Windsor...

, the son of Scottish immigrants Robert and Catherine Boyle. He grew up in Dundas, Ontario

Dundas, Ontario

Dundas is a formerly independent town and now constituent community in the city of Hamilton in Ontario, Canada. It's nickname is the Valley Town. The population has been stable for decades at about twenty thousand, largely because it has not annexed rural land from the protected Dundas Valley...

 and attended Highland Secondary Highschool.

He was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia

Dyslexia

Dyslexia is a very broad term defining a learning disability that impairs a person's fluency or comprehension accuracy in being able to read, and which can manifest itself as a difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory, or rapid...

 in 2001.

Film career 2008/2010

Boyle's first documentary film Coming Clean won two awards at the 2010 New York International Film Festival for best film and audience award.

The premise of the documentary was that Boyle takes a camera crew into New York's dangerous crack houses to find one person who will voluntarily go into rehab at the expense of the film. What starts out as a cautionary tale with a planned happy ending, suddenly becomes something very different.

Future work

In October 2011, it emerged Boyle is preparing to shoot a screenplay in Toronto titled Yonge and Bloor. The film will provide an unconventional account of a dying mans last few days after he physically survives a horrific car accident in which his wife is killed. Filming will begin in Canada March 2012.

Controversy

In 1996 he invested in an AJ Hackett bungy jumping franchise with two other business partners.

On Friday May 24, 1996, as a publicity stunt, he entered the Hong Kong Stadium

Hong Kong Stadium

Hong Kong Stadium is the main sports venue of Hong Kong. Redeveloped from the old Government Stadium it reincarnated as Hong Kong Stadium in 1994...

grounds and climbed 180 feet onto the roof and bungy jumped. He was not arrested but was given a lifetime ban from all Hong Kong urban council facilities.

External links

• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1650508/
• http://independentfilmquarterly.net/filmmakers-to-watch/coming-clean.html
• http://www.uomacau.com/en-us/entertainment/detail/6210?position_id=237&thread=3363
• http://nyfilmvideo.info/2010-summer-ny-awards/2010-summer-ny-awards.htm
• http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/template/apple/sec_main.php
• http://scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.02bb4e979f5e08d5df646910cba0a0a0/?vgnextoid=94bfa1fea2ea3210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&vgnextfmt=teaser&cat=News&ss=Archives&s=VIDEO
• http://www.ajhackett.com/macau/
• http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WT&p_theme=wt&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_text_search-0=paul%20AND%20boyle&s_dispstring=paul%20boyle%20AND%20date(1996)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=1996&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no
• http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/engineering/engineering.html