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PAUL DAVIDS |
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 Paul Davids' career in film and television
took off
when he got his “first break” as production coordinator of the original
“TRANSFORMERS” TV show for Marvel Productions in 1985. His name appears
on about 80 episodes, and he also wrote many of them. This popular
series, based on the Hasbro toys, spawned the recent smash hit feature
film, “THE TRANSFORMERS,” from Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay. Before
he began producing and directing his own films, Paul spent a couple
years co-writing six STAR WARS sequel novels (with Hollace Davids) for
Lucasfilm and Bantam books, including the award-winning MISSION FROM
MOUNT YODA plus THE GLOVE OF DARTH VADER, THE LOST CITY OF THE JEDI,
ZORBA THE HUTT’S REVENGE, QUEEN OF THE EMPIRE and PROPHETS OF THE DARK
SIDE. The books sold millions of copies and were published in many
languages.
Jerry talked with Paul
Davids in 2007 about his career and his various movie
and TV projects over the years.
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Running time: 20 minutes, 9 seconds
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 Paul
Davids visited with Jerry during the 2007 UFO
Congress and International Film Festival.
In this conversation he talks about pre-production
of Jesus in India & the Sci Fi Boys documentary as
well as some of his other projects.
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JESUS
IN INDIA is Paul Davids' 5th feature film as director.
He produced the film with Anil Kumar Urmil, who is from Goa,
India, and who served as Executive Producer (with Felicity M.
Newman) on “STARRY NIGHT.” It features a memorable music score
by Brian Thomas Lambert (who also composed music for “THE SCI-FI
BOYS”) This film is a quest to unravel the mysteries of Jesus’
Lost Years (or “Hidden Years”) from age 12 to 30, which are not
documented in the Bible. In so doing, it explores the legends,
myths and actual evidence that Jesus’ Hidden Years were
partially spent in India, and that Jesus was the “King of
Travelers” as Muslims have always claimed. It is loosely based
on the book King of Travelers: Jesus’ Lost Years in India
by Edward T. Martin, who leads us on a 4000 mile journey to holy
places of many major religions in this film. The film is most
remarkable for the participants who appear on camera, including
best selling author Professor Elaine Pagels of Princeton
University, the Dalai Lama, the “Pope of Hinduism” (the Shankaracharya) in his first public revelation on this topic
(and he insists that Jesus was in India at the 2.500 year old
Jagannath Temple in Puri), Monsignor Corrado Balducci (an
Apostolic Nuncio of Pope John Paul II) and representatives of
Paramahansa Yogananda's Self-Realization Fellowship.
JESUS IN INDIA is a
97 minute feature documentary, produced over the course of three
years.
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Paul Davids’ films are known for controversy,
beginning with “ROSWELL” (starring Martin Sheen, Kyle MacLachlan &
Dwight Yoakam), a 1994 nominee for Golden Globe as Best TV Motion
Picture, which he executive produced and co-wrote as a Showtime original
movie. It dealt with issues of extraterrestrial life and the purported
“truth embargo” on the subject of ET contact.
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Listen to an
interview with Paul done in 2005 at the UFO Congress
in
Laughlin, Nevada shortly after the late
Peter
Jennings special on
UFOs
called "Roswell" a myth. This
interview is available only as a
Windows media
version.
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here to listen.
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Paul
tells Jerry how his interest in the UFO field was sparked by a daylight
flying saucer sighting in 1987 in close proximity, with his two children. This
event provided the motivation for him becoming Executive Producer and Co-Writer
of the Showtime film, Roswell, starring Kyle MacLachlan, Dwight
Yoakam, and Martin Sheen. He talks about being an advocate for full public
disclosure of the facts about the UFO phenomenon. Davids is president of
Yellow Hat Productions, Inc.
This interview was conducted in
Roswell in 2004 and is available only as a
Windows media
version.
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Paul's directorial debut
was in 1997 with “TIMOTHY LEARY'S DEAD,” which he filmed
with the late Harvard Professor who promoted LSD for
consciousness expansion in the Psychedelic 1960s. “TIMOTHY
LEARY’S DEAD” proved to be a favorite at many major festivals
(including Toronto & Venice & the NY Underground Film
Festival). That film had a theatrical release from Strand and a
DVD release from Roger Corman's New Concorde.
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In 2000,
Universal Studios Home Entertainment released Paul Davids'
“STARRY NIGHT” to DVD, a whimsical fantasy that Davids
produced (with Hollace Davids) and which Paul Davids wrote and
directed. In this film, artist Vincent van Gogh returns to life
for 100 days to discover he's now an extraordinary success, but
Vincent finds that he still can't get paid for his paintings –
now worth billions - that were rejected in his day a century
ago. It is an ironic commentary on society’s frequent lack of
appreciation for (and sometimes total disregard of) its greatest
artists while they are living. Universal also licensed the film
to TV around the world.
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The director's next
film was a 2004 DVD release called “THE ARTIST AND THE SHAMAN,”
a very personal story dealing with his own quest for life’s
deeper meaning as an artist in Sedona, Arizona, influenced by a
shaman with mystic connections to those Arizona lands, held
sacred by many native-Americans. The film won awards of merit
and received excellent reviews. UFO-TV released the DVD.
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This was followed in
2006 by another Paul Davids film released by Universal Studios
Home Entertainment: “THE SCI-FI BOYS.” That film was
broadcast on the Sci Fi Channel and is now being seen on TV
around the world. It won many awards, including the Saturn
Award as Best DVD of 2006 (from the Academy of Science-Fiction,
Fantasy and Horror) and the fan-based International Rondo Award
as Best Independent Genre Film of 2006. The DVD is widely
available on the internet.
 In “THE
SCI-FI BOYS,” Paul Davids features director Peter Jackson (“LORD
OF THE RINGS,” “KING KONG”) who takes viewers through a history
of special effects in film with a dozen notables of the world of
imaginative cinema, including Ray Harryhausen, Dennis Muren,
Rick Baker & Ray Bradbury, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.
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