Paul Cuoco
For the last ten years Paul Cuoco has written and produced a diverse array of creative properties from animated shorts to multi-million dollar themed attractions. Starting his career as an intern with Boston-based production company Horizon Media, Paul’s talents were immediately apparent. He was quickly promoted to writer and associate producer overseeing the bulk of Horizon’s corporate video projects before moving on to Universal Studios Hollywood where he rose through the ranks from Production Coordinator to Production Manager of Universal’s Terminator 2:3D attraction. Driven by an insatiable need to create and not just manage, Paul & co-director Jeff Loach began collaborating on a spec paranormal television series P.E.A.R.L. Though the series never made it in front of the cameras, a creative partnership was born, and the two formed Not Afraid! an independent production company with the common vision of creating inspiring, provocative, and innovative entertainment. After five years, three feature screenplays and numerous other projects, they decided it was time to put their money where their mouths are. Utilizing their personal savings and donations from friends and family, the two embarked on the ambitious, personal, and timely undertaking that would eventually become Spoils of War, a digital short war film trilogy that combines their individual passions with extraordinary empathy to deliver a moving, thought provoking, and a truly honest look at war and its aftermath. The films in the trilogy include Hero, Inheritance, and Glazed.
Selected Filmography
SHORT FILMS
- Mercy (Producer, Editor)
- Inheritance(Writer/Director)
- Hero (Producer)
- Boomerang Love (writer)
- A Stranger’s Kiss (Editor, Co-Producer)
SCREENPLAYS
- Crowe’s Nest
- (Semi-Finalist in 2002 Project Greenlight)
- Z
- iRev (Treatment)
- Thieves of the Devil’s Blood (Semi-Finalist in 1999 American Accolades Competition)
- Oh Brother
- P.E.A.R.L.
ANIMATION
- Fingers & The Three Hand Band
- Love Letters (internet production)
- Odd Gods (internet production)
- Zoophobia (internet production)
