Paul Wagner is an Academy Award-winning independent filmmaker who has produced and directed over thirty films over a thirty-year career. His films express his eclectic interests and filmmaking styles, unified by a interest in the nature of the human condition. He is one of a few filmmakers in the world who move freely between the documentary and narrative film forms.

• The Stone Carvers

  
  (1984) won both the Oscar and Emmy Awards.

• Miles of Smiles

  , Years of Struggle:
  the Untold Story of the

  Pullman Porters

  
  (1982) was one of the first documentaries produced about Black history.

• Out of Ireland:

  the Story of

  Irish Emigration

  to America

  
  (1995) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

• Signature:

  George C. Wolfe

  
  (1996) was named the Best Public Television Program of the Year.

• A Paralyzing Fear

  : the Story of

  Polio in America

  
  (1998) won an Emmy Award and the Eric Barnouw Award for Best Historical Documentary.

• Windhorse

  
  (1999), Paul’s first dramatic feature, was filmed clandestinely inside Chinese-occupied Tibet.