---
name: "Paul Wright"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/paul-wright-1032801"
fi1m_id: "paul-wright-1032801"
imdb_id: "nm3591467"
tmdb_id: 1032801
wikidata_id: "Q113377786"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T22:28:05.611884+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Paul Wright

## Identity

Paul Wright

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/paul-wright-1032801
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** paul-wright-1032801
- **IMDb ID:** nm3591467
- **TMDB ID:** 1032801
- **Wikidata ID:** Q113377786
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113377786, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3591467/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1032801

Director. Born in Fife, Scotland, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113377786, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3591467/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1032801

## Biography

Paul Wright is a Scottish film director and screenwriter. He grew up in Lower Largo, Fife, and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow before completing an MA in Directing Fiction at the National Film and Television School.

His short films include *Hikikomori* (BAFTA nomination for Best Short Film and BAFTA Scotland win for Best New Work), *Believe* (2009, Golden Leopard at Locarno) and *Until the River Runs Red* (2010, BAFTA Best Short Film). His feature debut *For Those in Peril* (2013), which he also wrote, premiered in Cannes Critics' Week and received BAFTA Scotland awards for Best Feature Film.

*Sources: metacritic.com, variety.com, heyuguys.com, theskinny.co.uk, neweuropefilmsales.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *For Those in Peril* (2013), Fi1m 73, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/for-those-in-peril.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Mission* (2026), Director, Writer
- *My Dad and the Volcano* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Salesmen* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Burns Night* (2022), Executive Producer
- *Arcadia Live* (2022), Director
- *Legends of Welsh Sport* (2022), series, Online Editor
- *Veronique* (2021), Executive Producer
- *My Sunshine* (2021), Executive Producer
- *Hunters* (2020), Executive Producer
- *Arcadia* (2017), Director
- *Murder: Lost Weekend* (2016), Director
- *Murder* (2016), series, Director
- *The Choice Is Ours* (2015), Actor
- *For Those in Peril* (2013), Writer, Director — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/for-those-in-peril.md)
- *Photos of God* (2011), Director
- *Until the River Runs Red* (2010), Director
- *Believe* (2009), Director
- *Hikikomori* (2006), Writer, Director
- *Rock Opera* (1999), as Jarvis
- *Behold, This Dreamer Cometh*, Executive Producer

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