Paul Butler

Paul Butler is a UK screenwriter and Filmmaker based in Yorkshire. Paul has a BA in Theatre, Film and Television from York St. John University. Whilst at University Paul won a Student Royal Television Society award. After graduating University Paul worked as a producer, writer and director at a variety of film production companies. Paul has always had the desire to work in the horror genre and in 2012 whilst working with the film and animation production company Glass Cannon, Paul met director Stewart Sparke. The pair shared a sense of the macabre and in-between commissioned projects started working on their own independent horrors together. The pair's short film Containment was shortlisted for the Horror Channel's 2014 Shortcuts to Hell 2 competition and was included in the Horror Anthology Feature film. Later that year, Paul wrote the First World War short film Loss and Legacy, which earned Glass Cannon a Royal Television Society award nomination. In 2015 Paul and Stewart formalised their horror partnership by co-founding Dark Rift Films. The company focus was to produce a slate of commercially viable genre feature films. The Creature Below was the production company's first feature film. Despite being made on a micro-budget the film went on to secure physical & digital distribution in ten territories. Spurred on by the success of the first film, in 2017 the duo launched a Kickstarter campaign for their second feature film Book of Monsters. The film became the third most funded horror film in the UK on the crowd-funding platform. Book of Monsters has gone on to have a successful festival run with positive reviews and is currently (2018) at markets.