Paula Vaccaro

About

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Paula Vaccaro is an award winning British-Italian executive producer, creative producer and screenwriter based in the United King- dom since 2000. With more than two decades of experience, she has worked in TV, radio, newspapers, magazines and cinema both in Spanish and English speaking territories. She has worked for various independent production companies and TV channels, including the BBC until 2009 when she founded Pinball London, a production company specialising in films with an author stamp for international audiences such as On the Milky Road (Venice Film Festival 2016), directed by Emir Kusturica and starring Monica Bellucci. In addition to Kusturica, with whom she had already worked producing the documentary Maradona (Cannes, 2008) and in the collective film Words with Gods (Venice 2014), her work stands out in various ca- pacities alongside other renowned filmmakers such as Sally Potter, Sara Driver, Jim Jarmusch, Guillermo Arriaga, Amos Gitai, Bahman Ghobadi, Warwick Thorn- ton, Mira Nair, Hideo Nakata, Álex de la Iglesia, Héctor Babenco, and a solid new generation of filmmakers including Aaron Brookner (Uncle Howard, Sundance 2016, Burroughs NYFF 2014), Edoardo de Angelis (Indivisibili, Mozzarella Stories), and Victoria Solano (9.70, Sumercé). In the past decade she has worked advising and training on pitching, production matters, outreach, audience engagement and festival strategy for over 100 films. She has been a mentor, speaker and a workshop facilitator at over a dozen in- ternational film festivals and events including Thessaloniki, GoodPitch, DocMontevideo, DocsSP, Sheffield DocFest, Jilhava film festival and Docs Buenos Aires, Tri- este FF. She was an Emmy Juror between 2009 and 2014, and Official Jury at San Sebastian Film festival in 2017, a Jury at Focal Awards for Archive excellency since 2010 and a professor at Kingston University 2015-2020.