Oriol Paulo


Oriol Paulo is a Spanish screenwriter and director. He is known for crime thriller movies such as The Body and The Invisible Guest. Both films garnered international acclaim and remade into several languages.

Career

Oriol Paulo studied audiovisual communication at Pompeu Fabra University and film at the Los Angeles Film School.
As a scriptwriter, he wrote screenplays for small screen films such as Ecos and Codi 60, but is best known for his work in series such as Absolute majority and The color of the cuitat.
In cinema, he made himself known as a co-screenwriter alongside Guillem Morales with the thriller Julia's Eyes, produced by Guillermo del Toro. But he had already made some short films such as McGuffin, Tapes and Eve.
In 2012 he wrote and directed his first feature, The Body. Paulo nominated for Best New Director at the Goya Awards and won the Best Film Award at the Fantastic Film Festival in Paris for The Body. In 2016 he wrote the script of Boy Missing, directed by Mar Tarragona. In 2017 Paulo wrote and directed The Invisible Guest with Mario Casas, Barbara Lennie and José Coronado as protagonists.
From 2016 onwards, Oriol Paulo works as the writer and director of the television series Night and Day.

Filmography