Paul Morrison (born 1944, London) is a British film director, screenwriter and psychotherapist.
Morrison was born in London to a family of ethnic Eastern European Jews from Ukraine and the USSR.
Upon leaving school Morrison studied economics at Churchill College, Cambridge, where he was in the same cohort as Tony Atkinson and graduated with a first-class degree in 1966.
He worked with Morgan Fisher on several highly regarded conceptual films, including The Director and His Actor Look at Footage.... After Morrison returned to London, he started work with the BBC, making short films for the nightly current affairs programme 24 Hours.
He moved up to longer pieces, working with a young John Humphrys on an expose of conditions at Ashford Remand Centre.
In 1970 Morrison left the BBC and went to work with a Community Arts Project, Inter-Action, where he led the films division.
He encouraged young people and community groups to make their own films, using the newly available portable Sony and Akai cameras.
At Inter-Action the tragic death of a colleague resulted in Morrison seeking help to face difficult feelings.
Paul left Inter-Action to become a founder member of the Newsreel Collective, helping make campaign and educational films.
This series was produced through APT Film and Television, which Morrison founded with Andy Porter and Tony Dowmunt.
During this extended period, he also completed his modular training at Spectrum Centre for Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy.
It featured a Jewish boy in a working class neighborhood who loves cricket but requires support and coaching from his Afro-/Caribbean neighbours to be half-way good at it.
It told the story of the thwarted love affair between Salvador Dali and Federico Lorca, in which Luis Buñuel became the jealous saboteur.
He wrote and directed 23 Walks, an older person’s dog-walking love story, starring Alison Steadman and Dave Johns.
Windermere explores a group of 1970s political activists who re-unite post-pandemic at a house on the eponymous, famous lake.
Morrison recounts his road trip in 1964 to Ukraine and the USSR to discover his family's Eastern European Jewish roots.