Paul Rivet

Paul Rivet is an award-winning filmmaker from the great state of Colorado. He began working as an actor in "Bones", "Westworld", and Clint Eastwood's "Sully". He directed Ótumókpó with Nigerian filmmakers while studying at Relativity Media which screened at the African International Film Festival in 2015. While a graduate student at Chapman University, he was mentored by Academy Award-winner David Ward (The Sting, Major League). Under the mentor-ship of Michael Apted (Rome, The Up Series), he directed "Snowball", which played film festivals around the world and was a semifinalist for the Student Academy Awards in 2018. He holds a BA in Theatre Education from the University of Northern Colorado and an MFA in Film Production from Chapman University. He is developing two features films, Paper Trail, a road trip comedy and Snowball, based on the award-winning short (2019).