Paul's portfolio of directing work is diverse, ranging from emotive and visual brand work, authentic and inspiring documentaries, subtle performance and comedy pieces and much more. He's so far won more than 50 international awards including the New York Festivals Grand Award, a BAFTA shortlisted short film and 18 golds from Cannes, EVCOM and the New York Festivals. As a creative director he’s helped London, Tokyo and Paris win the right to host Olympic games, led the film department at a global agency Imagination and built 2 companies from scratch, Wilder and Buddy into award winning agencies consistently ranked in the top 20 by Televisual Magazine.
Stories that connect
Making films that help shape the way people think and feel about brands.
Paul writes and directs great films: informative films, persuasive films, emotional films, entertaining films. He knows his stuff without being precious. He works fast and can achieve miracles on realistic budgets. He gets under the skin of a brief like a pig snuffling for truffles. He's brilliant at music. Oh, and he's great fun to work with.
David Magliano,
Director of Marketing, London 2012 Olympic Bid & England 2018 World Cup Bid
Paul Gowers
Creative Director & Director
Jim North
Writer & Creative
Jim is a Perrier-nominated writer and actor. He has written and performed extensively for radio and TV and film, and has awards from the LA, New York, Cannes and British Film Festivals on his mantelpiece. He writes beautiful scripts and some funny ones too. Jim’s loveable face can also be seen in many of our original productions.
Ella Cade
Producer
Ella has been with Buddy from the start. She graduated from Sussex University with a first class degree in Media Practice and began working with Buddy initially as a production assistant and then production manager. She now heads up all our productions having built up a wealth of experience as producer on projects for clients such as Google, Castrol, Bentley, Unilever and Young Voices.
We were delighted with the finished film, which was compelling, informative and uplifting - even incorporating brilliantly a moment of humour from a patient which, in the wrong hands, wouldn’t have worked at all. I would happily recommend Buddy to other hospices and charities looking to produce a promotional film for their work and cause
Andrew Thompson,
Communications Manager, Prospect Hospice