Paul Middleditch is a renowned director, recognized as one of the top performance/action TV commercial directors globally. With an impressive career spanning over 300 commercials, he has accumulated an array of prestigious awards, including eight Cannes Lions, four of which are gold, and numerous International and National accolades.
As a testament to his exceptional skill, Middleditch was recently ranked as the 8th Best Commercial Director of all time by Lüzer's Archive. He has consistently maintained a Number One Director World Ranking on Best Ads on TV, with his work featuring at the Super Bowl for six consecutive years. Additionally, he is one of the few Australian creatives to have appeared on the cover of Shots Magazine.
Middleditch's career in film began at a young age, with his first short film, 'Light of the Blade', winning the Best Direction award at the Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival at the tender age of 19. His subsequent feature films, Terra Nova and A Cold Summer, garnered critical acclaim, with Terra Nova winning the first film prize in Montreal in 1999 and Best of Festival at the Edinburgh Film Festival, and screening at over thirty festivals worldwide.
Middleditch's third feature, Separation City, premiered in competition at the Rotterdam Film Festival and earned him an Australian Film Institute nomination for Best Director. His first American feature film, Rapture Palooza, was released in 2013, starring Anna Kendrick and Craig Robinson.
Today, Middleditch is represented by Plaza Films in Australasia and aWHITELABELproduct in the USA for commercials, as well as Paradigm Talent Agency for films.
