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Known as a talented drama and documentary filmmaker, Paul Morrison takes the helm again in his third feature film, Little Ashes. In his first feature film, Solomon & Gaenor, Morrison served both as writer and director. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for best foreign film and won the Welsh BAFTA for best film in 2001. Starring Ioan Gruffudd and Nia Roberts, the film tells the story of a love affair between a Welsh woman and a Jewish immigrant in turn-of-the-century Wales. In a 2000 interview with indieWIRE, Morrison said he was inspired by research about anti-Semitic riots in Wales he discovered while completing his documentary A Sense of Belonging, which explored British Jewish identity. Morrison wrote and directed his second feature, Wondrous Oblivion, about themes of race and immigration, once again. The film follows a cricket-obsessed Jewish boy’s unlikely friendship with a Jamaican immigrant family in London in the 1960s. Starring Delroy Lindo and Sam Smith, Wonderous Oblivion won awards including the audience award for best feature film at the Boston Jewish Film Festival in 2004. Prior to directing feature films, Morrison wrote and directed acclaimed documentaries including the British Broadcasting Corp.’s From Bitter Earth about drawings and paintings created in concentration camps and ghettos during World War II. His film, Like Other People won the Grierson Award for best U.K. documentary in 1973. Morrison also worked extensively with Channel 4 on About Men, a study of masculinity, and A Change of Mind, which explored psychotherapy. He examined the art world in three half-hour art dramas for the channel: Degas and Pissaro Fall Out, Lucrezia Borgia Reveals All and A Midsummer Night’s Scream. Upcoming projects for the director include the film Charlotte, which examines the life of artist Charlotte Salomon, and Me & Joe, a story of a young, white, guitar-playing musician and his friendship with a black man who plays the blues. Morrison, who grew up in North London, studied at Cambridge and the Royal College of Art. The grandson of Russian anarchist Jewish refugees, he was a practicing psychotherapist and told indieWIRE he likes to explore the extremes of emotion in his films.
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