Paul FitzSimons

Producer and Writer,
Prelude Content

Ireland

Paul FitzSimons is a producer, screenwriter and script editor with 15 years’ experience in the film industry. He runs Prelude Content, producing films and TV Dramas, working with creatives in Ireland, UK, Spain and Serbia. In 2023, he completed Prelude’s first feature film VERDIGRIS, which won the Best Independent Film award at the 2023 Galway Film Fleadh and will screen at the Newport Beach Film Festival in October. Paul qualified with a post-graduate diploma in Film Production in 2021.

Paul was previously Development Executive at production company Danú Media. He also wrote and produced the feature film THE GIFT (2017, OC Productions, 15A), has written a number of other feature films and TV Dramas, and worked as a story-writer on the Irish TV Drama ‘Fair City’.
Paul also runs a script-editing consultancy and develops and delivers training courses in screenwriting and development.
In his downtime, he plays the trumpet with an orchestra and sings with a choir.

Filmography

2023 – VERDIGRIS | Co-production with MnáMná Films. Director Patricia Kelly.
2017 – THE GIFT | 15A, OC Productions. Director Damian O’Callaghan.