Paul Docherty
Editor
Editor,
Writer,
Animator,
Producer,
Director.
United States, New York City
About Me:
Website:
pauldocherty.net
Where I work: I run my own company or organisation
Technical Skills: Writing for the screen, editing feature length narrative and documentary, interviewing for camera
My Work and Credits:
HEART OF NEON
About:
HEART OF NEON is the feature documentary about legendary video game designer Jeff Minter and his development company Llamasoft. For decades Jeff has been a pioneer indie game design, either as a solo developer, or in more recent years with programming partner Ivan Zorzin. The Llamasoft story parallels the emergence and ultimate dominance of the home video game entertainment industry, and as such Jeff Minter has a very unique perspective on the business of video games. How does an independent video game developer not only survive but thrive in an industry that treats the talent that makes games as interchangeable and disposable? Llamasoft is the embodiment of digital artistic endeavour and of doing what you love against the odds. This is a story that celebrates every independent creative artist, writer or programmer who has experienced the struggle of working on the fringe.
Photos:
Fun stuff:
Films I wish I had made:
Everything Everywhere All At Once; The Diving Bell & The Butterfly; Color Out of Space
I cried watching:
Finding Nemo, Up
I left the cinema during:
the closing credits (what kind of filmmaker walks out during a movie??)
Directors I love:
David Lynch, Stanley Kubrick, Guillermo Del Toro, Martin Scorsese, David Cronenberg, Nicolas Winding Refn, Lars Von Trier, Terry Gilliam, Coen Bros
Actors I admire:
Stephanie Hsu, Michael Fassbender, Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Helen Mirren, Nic Cage
Writers I Respect:
Alan Moore, Philip K Dick, Harlan Ellison,
My desert island discs:
This Nation's Saving Grace - The Fall; Jewellery - Micachu;
OK Computer - Radiohead;
Books I have given my friends:
Zeroville by Steve Erickson; From Hell by Alan Moore; Brink v1 by Dan Abnett
My death row meal:
my mother's steak pie with all the trimmings
The best thing I own:
a healthy perspective