Jith Paul is a filmmaker based in Ottawa, Canada, a producer for the short film “Moments”, the Best Picture winner at the Digi60 Film Festival in 2011. Jith also produced the short film “Polar Bear Love”, a winner at the 2011 Ottawa International Film Festival (OIFF) and a semi finalist in CBC Television’s 2011 Short Film Faceoff competition. He directed “Documenting Dreams” an official selection at OIFF 2010 and edited a documentary about the first citizen’s Tribunal on crimes against women in Burma called “This is My Witness” which premiered at the Paley Centre in New York in September 2010 and is an Official Selection for the 2011 Ottawa International Film Festival.

Jith is a graduate of the television broadcasting program at Algonquin College and holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo. He recently produced five segments commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for inclusion in the CBC Ottawa’s local Summer series. The segments were packaged as “CBC Ottawa Presents: Neighbourhood Stories” and aired on July 30th, 2011.

Jith is the owner and president of Treepot Media Inc. and founder of the Treepot Indie Filmmaker Showcase, a celebration of work by local filmmakers. The inaugural event played to a capacity theatre in September 2011.

Jith collaborates with local artists, musicians and filmmakers to broadcast indie content on a web television channel called Treepot.tv. Treepot.tv streams free HD content through iTunes in the US and Canada and was a nominee for the Best Canadian Music Website in CBC Radio 3′s Searchlight 2011 competition.

Jith freelances as a photographer, camera operator, DIT/DMT and editor. His recent clients include Evolv Health, Kublacom Pictures, Affinity Productions, The Centre for Equity and Human Rights at the University of Ottawa and Help Lesotho.

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